Coming from a household with multiple vegetarians, my family doesn't usually, or ever eat meat. With this, we almost always cook vegetarian meals and vegan desserts. By eating less meat, my family and I can both decrease our carbon footprints and help our ecosystem. It takes a huge amount of CO2 emissions in order to produce and make meat. Just by reducing the amount of meat we eat each week to one time or never we can help our environment and improve the amount of carbon emissions from my family.

I would like to be a vegetarian, because I love animals and care about the fate of our planet.
But it’s very hard because everyone in my family and even all my friends eat meat, also I like it very much: my favorite food is “ossobuco alla Milanese”, which is meat-based.
Moreover, we can assimilate proteins from other sources like legumes. Secondly consuming meat can lead to cancer, instead those new alternatives are good for the health.
A possible solution is trying to reduce the consume of meat, instead of completely remove it from the diet: for example, we can eat twice once a week, so that we can decrease our carbon footprints and help our ecosystem. 
People have to change mentality and be more open-minded! 
Goodbye!

I really admire your spirit and your family's attitude!
I would like to be able to make a choice like that and start being a vegetarian for real, but living in a family that usually puts meat in almost everything isn't helpful at all.. Most of the times I decide to cook vegetarian meals for myself, when I think that meat isn't really necessary, when the weekly amount of it it's definitely enough (1-2 times a week if it's not chicken). I have to admit that I really enjoy them!
People underestimate vegetables, legumes and a lot of non-animal products that are really useful, tasty and most important: healthy.
I just hope more and more people can finally open their eyes and realize what a wonderful nutrition they can have without increasing CO2 emissions this much.
I'll surely start with my family!

I eat meat and I like it very much, but I have reduced the amount of meat that I eat each week. Before I ate meat four or five times a week, now I eat meat once or twice. Sometimes I stop eating meat for a week, I do a diet "detox" from meat. My mum and I cook often vegetarian meals and we like that, but it's very difficult to change completely nutrition. My little brother does a lot of sport so he needs a little meat sometimes. My grandparents cook always meat and I can't go to them and say that I don't want meat, because they are old and I don't want that they must cook a different meal for me, it's just a lot of work. In conclusion, I think that changing completely nutrition is difficult, but not impossible. With patience, constancy and dedication we can do it.

I love how you are so energetic and willing to help the environment! It would be very difficult for me to be vegetarian, and I am impressed with your effort to help the environment. I'm inspired by you to help reduce the meat I consume and help the environment in so many different ways!

I think that @alessiafaccoli is doing is a good idea. Being a vegetarian is good and all and is a fast way to help stop eating meat. But, not everyone is going to think that way. Some people might think that completely giving up meat is a bad idea. Let's be real. Eating meat tastes good. We all know that. As I said, some people are going to stick with that. So, reducing the number of times you eat meat in a week is giving you the best of both worlds. People still get to eat meat. Just not as much. Also, it will slowly, but surely get the problem of limiting our meat consumption.

Hi. I eat meat and it's probably a need not because it tastes good but because of how much protein is in it. But whenever my family and I can we try to make quite a lot of vegetarian dishes as well. If we need to help our environment that could be one small step in making change. Sometimes, when we want a certain meal correlated with chicken, pizza, and other meats we tend to crave for it more than vegetables and fruits. But, if we try to have vegan dishes repetitively we could change the way we think about food and consume less harmful items.

I agree with @itzzzmyla in what she said. Giving up meat is something that not all people can do. It will be very hard to give up something so delicious. If you reduce in meat you can still eat it but not every day. But if you are someone like me who will never eat a salad in their life (because it is nasty) then giving up meat is going to be hard for you. If you cut down on meat then you will be helping the others around you. I know this sounds weird but you are helping the environment but not eating meat.

I agree that giving up meat is something not all people can do because some people who try to get in shape eat a lot of meat and need more protein than others. But less meat consumption from families will help the environment.

I recently became a vegetarian a couple of years ago after living in a mostly vegetarian household as my sister has been vegetarian before I was born.  While being vegetarian you become more open to trying more and more fruits and vegetables that have provided us with many healthy nutrients.  It has opened me more to use all I can of the vegetables I buy.  I understand @symantha, @kirvenkayla, @bighead_ajay, etc., however, with the growth of all these new fake meat products like the impossible burger, people have been able to get the protein and the meaty taste coming from plant proteins.  This is one way I have come to eating healthy proteins that I feel satisfied with.

I will never, EVER be a vegetarian. Meat is naturally eaten, animals aren't conscious, and therefore don't feel anguish, and also nothing beats a juicy steak. Call me heartless or whatever but I do not care about animal lives at all, unless they are intelligent, like dolphins or dogs.

None of my immediate family is deliberately vegetarian, however, we do not really eat meat except chicken. We do not eat pork or beef ever because of religious reasons. We do try to eat vegetarian because my grandparents do not eat meat, and they come over frequently which makes us try not to eat meat. However, meat for my family is mainly for necessity because both my mom and brother have a protein deficiency and meat is one of the only natural ways to eat protein.

@2007toyotacamrysev6 I somewhat agree: yes, meat is naturally eaten, but a lot of the thing we DO with meat is not natural neither for our bodies nor for the environment. For example, eating a burger from mcdonalds isn't natural. Our bodies weren't CREATED to eat something like that, the same way the Earth wasn't created so that humans could harvest animals for their meat. I'm personally not vegetarian, I'm pescatarian, but I think it's important for most Americans to cut down on their meat intake because yes, meat can be important for your health, but there's a point when it becomes unhealthy. Since becoming pescatarian I've found it really interesting to experiment with different kinds of foods that don't contain meat: granted, I never really liked meat to begin with. They have GREAT recipes that substitute things that are normally eaten with meat or other types of animal products. Being a vegetarian doesn't mean you need to eat a salad all the time; I don't even like salads! My mom decided to become pescatarian for health reasons, which can also be a benefit for some  people. Yes, vegetarianism/veganism may not be for everyone, but I think it's good to at least be mindful about how much meat you eat.

I became a vegetarian without even thinking about the impact meat has on the environment because most of my family is vegetarian. I do think that it is not very hard to cut down on the amount of meat you eat, it is not possible for everyone to be vegetarian or pescatarian but eating the amount of meat that most people eat, especially processed meats like fast food, is unnecessary.

I agree with this even though I am not a vegetarian, but I do my best to cut down on meat because it takes a lot of carbon emissions to make meat ready to be eaten.  I feel as though people should not become a vegetarian if they really enjoy meat but instead, just cut back. If everyone were to do this, then it would become much more healthy for the earth, and would eventually create a healthier atmosphere for all of us.

I believe that not everybody can become vegetarian, but they can definitely cut down on the amount of meat they eat. I also do not eat pork for religious reasons which can definitely help and reduces my carbon footprint. Meat definitely impacts climate change. Raising animals for food consumes more than half of all water used in the U.S. It takes 2,500 gallons of water to produce a pound of meat but only 25 gallons to produce a pound of wheat. This definitely plays a big role in the change of environment.

By eating less meat, my family and I can both decrease our carbon footprints and help our ecosystem. It takes a huge amount of CO2 emissions in order to produce and make meat. Just by reducing the amount of meat we eat each week to one time or never we can help our environment and improve the amount of carbon emissions from my famil

I think being vegetarian is ok, they have a lower footprint. To avoid health problems they still need to eat protein they can eat legumes and not meat. If we aren't vegetarian, anyway we can reduce meat consumption