How much does eating locally-produced food help the climate problem? What are the other potential environmental and social benefits of eating locally-grown/produced food? Do you have a food garden in your school or at home? If not, do you want one?
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If humans became vegetarians, our carbon footprint would decrease. Livestock farming produces from 20%-50% of all man-made carbon emissions. According to Greeneats.com eating 1 kilogram of beef is the equivalent of driving 63 miles. This produces about 27 pounds of carbon, which is extremely harmful to the climate. If we ate less meat and ate more vegetables as a whole our carbon footprint would decrease drastically. In conclusion, one giant way to produce fewer carbon emissions is to eat meat just once in a while and eat more vegetables.
I agree with your points. We need to work on eating less meat and eating more vegetables. Humans really don't need to be eating all this meat and vegetables are better for us anyway. Also, the fact that eating meat is one of the most harmful things to our plant that should be a good incentive to stop eating so much meat.