vegetarian research paper?!

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You could write about the the small animals killed during the planting, harvesting and storage of vegetables. I'll even post a link with details on those deaths. Or you could write about the devastation to the environment if everyone gave up meat and we had to plow up all that erodible land to plant veggies. Or....well, you get the idea.

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.food.…
http://web.archive.org/web/2004110708452…

Daisy, I reported you as I have before. Your answer was not an answer and did not address the question at hand. Further, another user is correct to say that less land would need to be cultivated if people ate less meat. Not only that but meat-eaters eat plants as well, so between the deaths of the large animals and the deaths of smaller animals for plant growth, you'd have more deaths than a vegetarian diet. Clearing land for farm animals kills more small animals, too, and displaces many others. What you said was just silly, and you have repeatedly spammed this section with your anti-vegetarian propaganda. If you like eating meat, do so, but stop pestering the kind people here who want genuine answers to their questions. Further to that, neither one of your links were genuine sources of information. The first is an article based upon the opinions of one person. If you look at the links I provided below, you would see that they are from a genuine group or organization with many, many citations and references.

Now to the Asker: There are many aspects of Factory Farming which are bad for the environment beyond methane gasses. For ones that involve greenhouse gases, consider the transport of the animals, the clearing of forests, and the heaps of manure adding gases to the air.

I found a couple reports that may give you some new ideas:

http://www.wspa-usa.org/download/140_eat…

http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a0701e/a07…

Well firstly to address daisies point most meat is fed on grain which is planted on fertile land, so if we stopped eating meat there would be LESS land cultivated, so less small animals killed and less land destroyed.

The meat industry involves the transport of a huge amount of water, meat (obviously), and food across continents. If we all ate plant produce there would be far less carbon emissions from the lorries trains and planes transporting the grain to the animals and then the animals to the plate.

I like to suggest it from the Factory Farming perspective, not the vegetarian/vegan perspective. It's bad for growers of feed crops due to pesticides, bad for slaughterhouse workers due to dangerously fast demands (some lose a whole arm), dangerous to the consumer from all the crap they eat (Google "New York Times ammonia beef" to see what I mean).

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Here's something for your paper:
Fossil fuel is prehistoric animal remains that we use in coal to heat our homes with and the gas that we put in our cars.
Some farmers have used cattle waste to fertilize their produce.

but, a well read vegan should already know of these things...

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