Do vegetarians think they are more enviromentally friendly than anyone else?!
If not should they be?
Answers: If they do Why?
If not should they be?
Yes and they become incredibly self-righteous.
well being a vegetarian doesnt mean youre automatically a environmentally friendly person, but it usually follows.
youre eating natural resources instead of killing more and more animals.
stuff like that basically.
Well they're not as green as they're cabbage looking! ?
Some do, some don't
We are not all clones.
I recently posted a question on this very subject just a short time ago, what a strange coincidence.
Loader2000: your logic is flawed. the meat industry acounts for 60% of agri emissions and yet provides less than 20% of the food. Feel free to read the FACTS as published by DEFRA in thier series on agri polution in "Farming Link" magazine during 2007.
Cattle rearing also accounts for 80% of Nitrous oxide emissions which have 800% ( yep 800% ) more global warming impact than CO2
edit: David, your question is not similar to mine, not by a long shot. please read it. same subject, yes, but certainly not a similar question.
Its nice to know that even though you don't give a rats *** ( your phrase ) about us you still go to the effort to post here.
I'm pleased our beliefs and lifestyles mean so much to you.
I don't know where you think i generalised in my original answer. You didn't ask for personal opinions, you said "Do vegetarians..." "vegetarians is a collective word so it was YOU who were generalising.
You run a meat business, you don't like or listen to vegetarians views, why do you even bother posting here ?
Your entire participation seems to be geared around negativity.
EDIT: my question hasn't disappeared ( as of 2:40 UK time ) . Once again you are prooving you don't know how to use this site.
In a strange sort off way us meat eaters are environmental in that a living cow gives off a obscene amount off gases every day and by killing and eating such cow we are lowering the emissions, but then if we did not breed cattle for food we would not have this problem in the first place.
And I know vegy's who think they are green but drive there car everywhere.
They probably think they are but with all the veggies they eat, the methane they fart out must be damaging.
I am sure some do and some don't. As I have said a hundred times before, there are mindless fanatics on both sides of the issue. Negative stereotyping and prejudicial typecasting only make sense to those people or those who think like them. Shoot, some omnis still like to argue that people are CARNIVORES with "scientific" proof to boot. Such statements and sentiments and feelings of superiority are best ignored.
no
I don't see the connection of what a person eats as to making them more 'enviromentally friendly'.
Not eating meat is a dietary choice that some may or may not have other concerns that they may link to their eating choices or not.
No they just think they are morally superior.
Vegetarians are not all of one mind; they have varying views, opinions, politics and passions. To ask 'Do vegetarians think this or that?' is like asking 'Do meat-eaters, or bus drivers or people who wear brown shoes think this or that?'
Just seen you additional information; if it was personal opinions you wanted, you worded your question badly. As you see, every answerer so far has taken it to be a general question. As the king of generalisations (most vegetarians have bad breath, vegetarianism leads to mental illness etc), you won't mind a generalised answer I'm sure
I think there are some who are, some who aren't. If they're vegetarian but tend to eat a lot of processed food, shop at supermarkets and consume stuff from thousands of miles away, then probably not. The really big environmental issue with more responsible vegetarianism would be what you do with your urine and faeces, because if you flush it down the toilet, it's going to go out to sea and the phosphate in it will be forever lost to the land, but if you do the same and you eat sea fish, some of the phosphate will be coming back. What i don't know right now is how much phosphate is in seaweed, because that might be the answer. The other thing is, it might be questionable to eat food prepared organically, non-organically or biodynamically if the livestock involved is seen as an economic resource. However, there are alternatives to this approach.
It is possible to be environmentally friendly and eat meat, but it would involve eating wild animals or extremely free range ones, and the whole lot would need to be used.
Being vegetarian is something that helps the earth itself. It's not the reason why some people go veg, but it is a true fact. Some people consider themselves more environmentally friendly then other people becuase, well, they are helping the environment. In addition, many people go veg FOR the environment, so they are environmentalists, and also happen to be veg.
Other people don't consider themselves more environmentally friendly than other people, though. It really varies.
Most do....I am and i consider myself envirometally friendlly. But ik people who aren't vegitarians and r very envirometally friendly. It jsut goes about the way u try to b more envirometally friendly i chose being a vegitarian other people amy decide differntly but we are all helping the enviroment (hopefully) :D
I think many veg*ans have a realization of how what we do affects the environment. The U.N. has reported that animal industry causes more pollution than transportation. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency determined that waste from factory farms causes more pollution than all other industrial sources combined. This doesn't even take into consideration the massive amounts of water used to produce animal foods and the driving of animals from one prison to another, to the slaughterhouse, to the grocery store, etc. Even those of us who can't or don't eat all local foods tend to have a more positive impact on the environment.
And when it comes to leather versus pleather, keep in mind leather and fur have to be processed with toxic chemicals that get into the groundwater and harm the workers and anyone living downstream of tanneries. How else do they prevent them from rotting on the wearers' backs and feet? While pleather and faux furs may be from petroleum byproducts, at least they do not have the toxic effects on the environment real animal skins do.
I'm vegetarian and I think enviromentally friendly, but that's also because my dad works in the environment departement, and he's not vegetarian. However, I think vegetarians are more aware of what they eat and therefor also checking food products more carefully.
Vegetarianism is better for the environment than eating meat. This, however does not mean that we are more environmentally friendly than anyone else. Just that our eating habits are more environmentally friendly than if we did eat meat.
If you're not vegetarian they probably are more than you. But they don't have to mean to be. Maybe it's just religious, and they don't really care. But meat does cause tons of pollution.
Some probably do.
Vegetarianism is just a diet, not a political statement.
Can you believe this moron has the gall to call out others regarding spelling??? Is he dumb as a stump or what??
Besides all of the mistakes he/she makes in this question, in another question, the asker misspelled "Thai" and this clown called them out and proceeded to post the word "spelt".
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?sp...
What a loser!
As a vegetarian, yes I see myself as being environmentally friendly. I know vegetarian meals have less impact on the earth and are healthier too. I still live in a city and I'm not perfect, but I try to do the best I can to help the planet. What other people do is their business, I just do what feels right for me.
Check out the PeTA website, because they certainly do.
A vegetarian diet is more environmentally friendly, since it takes more water, land and energy to produce meat than any other food. Some vegetarians are environmentalists, others have entirely different reasons.
i dont think i am more environmentally friendly by not eating meat. although i might be, i dont know. i dont eat meat because i simply dont want to eat animals. i buy organic veg or grow my own and i think thats better for the environment by not using insecticides.
everyone should be more careful of the worlds resources etc but they arent so its a lost cause.
No, only vegans.
And rightfully so.
Vegetarianism is much more environmentally friendly that eating meat. After the automobile industry, the meat industry produces the most pollution.
You're asking people to generalize?
It doesn't surprise me at all, coming from you.
Yes, we are.
Slaugherhouses contribute to global warming, and we don't add to it :)