How does going Vegan affect you and the environment?!

THere will be one less chicken breast, turkey thigh, cow cheek needed to feed one person.
If a couple of us get together, we can save a whole cow.
If a street of us got wise, we'd be NOT letting five or six cows be tortured and horrible abused.

Also, there will be that much LESS carbon monoxide driving my cow cheek from the farm 2000 miles away to my plate. I will have contributed LESS to pollution, and there will be more clean sky and green fields and rainforest because of me.

If a lot of people did this, we can make a difference.

Yes, I eat vegetables and fruit- my carbon footprint for food alone is pretty small. All my food comes from within ten miles of where I live, no planes are needed, no heavy machinery or diesel from cross country trucks, nor freezers full of dead carcasses.

Simplest explanation here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment…

According to a 2006 United Nations initiative, the livestock industry is one of the largest contributors to environmental degradation worldwide, and modern practices of raising animals for food contributes on a "massive scale" to deforestation,[2] air and water pollution, land degradation, loss of topsoil, climate change,[3] the overuse of resources including oil and water, and loss of biodiversity. The initiative concluded that "the livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global."[4] In 2006 FAO estimated that meat industry contributes 18% of all emissions of greenhouse gases. This figure was revised in 2009 by two World Bank scientists and estimated at 51% minimum. [5]
In a world of diminishing safe water supplies it is worth bearing in mind that animals fed on grain need much more water than grain crops.[6] In tracking food animal production from the feed through to the dinner table, the inefficiencies of meat, milk and egg production range from a 4:1 energy input to protein output ratio up to 54:1.[7] The result is that producing animal-based food is typically much less efficient than the direct harvesting of grains, vegetables, legumes, seeds and fruits for human consumption. A person existing chiefly on animal protein requires 10 times more land to provide adequate food than someone living on vegetable sources of protein.

Okay, in short, I feel very helpful. Because even though people consider it as an unhealthy diet. You're saving lots of money, creative with your food, you're definitely against animal-cruelty, and you would never worry about gaining weight or serious health problems compared to those who eat meat.