Cow emissions are officially a bigger contributor to greenhouse gases on our planet then Cars. Cows create so much fossil fuels because you have to burn fuel to produce fertilizer to grow feed, to produce meat and to transport it and clearing vegetation for grazing. All of this produces 9 percent of all emissions of carbon dioxide on our planet!  But if you were to go vegetarian or at least cut your meat intake you'd see a huge drop in your carbon footprint! It is also a lot more sustainable and cheap!

Do you think going vegan would go further in helping the carbon dioxide emissions?  Just being vegetarian means that someone still supports the dairy industry, which in many cases produces more carbon dioxide.

With the population of cows right now, if we were to stop eating cows wouldn't it be worse for our atmosphere? Because of all the cows, we have right now, if we stopped killing them then they would have longer lives and therefore produce more methane. There will also be a rise in the population of cows because they will be having lots of calves which produces more methane. I think what we really have to do is find a way to more naturally raise the cows. By this I mean not trying to fatten up the cows, just let them live so it is more natural and it is eliminating some of the fossil fuels that are emitted into the atmosphere during the cow's life.

Everyone going vegetarian is a very unrealistic task for the whole world to convert.  In the U.S approximately only 11% of the population considers themselves vegetarian so to convert 89% of the population is a very unreasonable task. To make substitutes of meat probably takes more work to make in return causes more carbon dioxide emissions than their already is.  It is a great idea but some aspects seem very unreachable.

Exactly. It costs 920 gallons of water to make one gallon of almond milk. This does not seem reasonable. It would probably be better to keep cows around. What else is going to take the place of the nutrients that a cow produces? And if we want plants to take the place of cows' nutrients it would hurt the environment a lot in other ways. Big corporations will start using pesticides and GMO's to get the most out of a crop. and in the long run, the amount of water that will be wasted on these plants will not make up for the small (if any) decrease of Greenhouse gas emissions.

I do understand that it's not realistic for most of the population to be vegetarian but there has to be a way of cutting down on the number of cows that farms raise, there is a serious over breeding of animals in America's farming business due to the large amount of meat the average American consumes.

Cutting down on meat and specifically beef actually isn't as hard as you think! Try getting a chicken burger next time you go to a burger place and try to get vegetarian meals at restaurants if there are any provided or ask for a vegetarian option of a meat dish.