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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I can agree with you on how eating more like a vegan or vegetarian meaning eat more vegetarian meals an such, but completely changing your lifestyle is hard to commit to. Overall though I agree that it could change and drop CO2 emissions.

I refuse to stop eating steak

I like chicken

The skin is the best part of the chicken 

Wouldn’t this change human evolution. Throughout the entirety of our existence humans have eaten meat. Would this not effect us. We get natural fats from meat.
And meat is an important part of human diets. It’s seen that only eating vegetables is bad vis versa. I think we need a balanced diet Not taking into the acount the millions of lives that depend on meat as their economy and food. And after a long day at work do you really want to come home and eat a bowl of salted broccoli

I don’t think that people going vegetarian would reduce the amount of animals farmers raise. It would just cause farmers to lower their prices. If we really wanted to make a change then we would need to work with the farmers directly.

I agree with the fact that not eating meat would go against what humans have done in the past. Meat is good source of protein, a nutrient that humans need to survive. Even if you obtain protein from a different source, you cannot ignore the fact that humans started out eating only meat. It is our instinct to eat meat, and while eating vegetables is also healthy, a balanced would serve humans better. I think our main concern should be convincing people to eat more vegetables, not cutting down the amount of meat we eat.

No only would we go against human instinct, we would also cut hundreds of thousands of jobs worldwide, crushing the midwest’s economy.

While every person cutting meat from their diets would decrease the food carbon footprint, it would creat more problems than it solves. A better solution to reducing our food carbon footprints would be sourcing our food locally and being mindful of the chemicals used to produce food. Eating organically also reduces our food carbon footprint becuase harmful/harsh chemicals are not being released into the atmosphere. We know that chemicals can harm our atmophere becuase of the hole created in the Ozone from aerosol use. So, making sure our food is organic is just one solution that can lower our carbon footprint.

i respectfully disagree with your statement of go vegetarian we kill the animals for good reasons so we can all eat nice good food we have been killing animals for decades for food why stop now  sure cooking meat inceases our carbon footprint but people cook veggies too why cant meat eaters cook their food too the best way we can help is start fat shaming that will reduce our carbon footprint alot