According to "Food choices on the Planet (http://www.earthsave.org/environ ment.htm), It takes 2,500 gallons of water, 12 pounds of grain, 35 pounds of topsoil and the energy equivalent of one gallon of gasoline to produce one pound of feedlot beef. One burger weighs about one pound, so if we eat one burger we waste all of these resources. If we leave beef out of our lives we would immensely impact the world. It is hard to give up meat, and a little unrealistic. I think we should all try to eat beef ONLY once a week and leave the rest of the days for something like chicken, that produces less waste.

This is definitely relatable to the majority of the world's population, as according to http://www.expo2015.org/magazine/en/lif … wide.html, only 375 million people are vegetarians in our 7 billion. I also agree that giving up meat would be very hard, and not everyone (including myself) would want to do it if it meant helping the earth. However, I do agree that the earth as a whole could rationalize the amount of meat that they eat and they could help the earth more than they know it.