I learned through the calculator that it is much more efficient and cleaner to  be a vegetarian or a vegan. They do not use meat so animals don't have to get killed which means we can raise less animals in the first place. If we can raise less animals, we would use a lot less energy and would reduce emissions of greenhouse gases a lot.

I will not become a vegetarian... BECAUSE!!!!!!! WHY should I stop eating meat to save the world if that isn't changing the people that produce the meat to stop killing the animals

I want to do my part and not wait "for the other guy" to act first because change will not happen if we all think that way. I think the data is clear that diets/lifestyles that depend on meat cause very high carbon footprints. The current "cost" of our high demand for meat products is a carbon footprint even greater than the carbon footprint caused by transportation. So no, I cannot afford to wait for the "others" to get on board to reduce their meat consumption. We must all make the best possible choice we can, and then we might see the changes we need to see to allow for a healthy planet. I am thankful that this carbon footprint calculator makes us all aware of the "costs" to the different choices we make every day, including what we eat. So many things can affect our carbon footprint and this calculator allows me to see what changes are in my power to reduce my carbon footprint.

I think for most people asking them to go vegetarian is to extreme because, either it is to hard to give up or it would affect people's diets in a negative way. Instead we could tell people to eat chicken or pork instead of eating beef. This will help as beef is the main cause to greenhouse gasses. Asking people to reduce their consumption of beef and to eat more pork, chicken, fish and vegetables is a more realistic way reduce greenhouse gasses.

One of my friends is choosing to go vegan one day a week. I think this shows reasonable support and responsibility - making some change that you can pull off, whatever that looks like for you. Something is better than nothing.

I think being vegetarian is ok, they have a lower footprints. 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.

Going vegetarian is an impactful way to reduce your carbon footprint. However, for meat eaters to reduce their own carbon footprint, I think that just eating less meat and only eating locally sourced meat will still help your carbon footprint. One extremely environmentally friendly way to still eat meat is to raise your own animals to eat, but that can be difficult and/or impossible for many people.

I don’t agree with this since going vegan would mean that you would only be eating plants so if everyone was gonna go vegan it would use to much plants which would mess up the oxygen supplies.

I dont think going vegetarian is impactful because vegetables take a lot of energy to process and a lot of land that could be used for trees.

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