Do you have to be a vegetarian to save the environment?!
Do you have to be a vegetarian to save the environment?
My friend says you can't be Carnivorus to save the forest because you eat animals. Help me!!!
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Your friend is a retard. Some do believe this, but it's your choice to eat meat or not. So, if you want to help out on the environment that's great!!! Everyone should, regardless if you eat meat or not.
No!
plz! u don't need to be veggie to save the environment! name one of the animals that live in the forest that u eat. I personally eat cow, pig, chicken, and turkey. as far as I'm concerned, those animals are raised on farms, not in forests. most of the time, our food is domesticated and not wild. so forget that myth that u have to be vegetarian to save the environment. if you really want to help, you should ask around your neighborhood for organizations that you can volunteer in, or simply recycle newspaper. Go out and save the world!
Go ahead and eat the animals! Vegetarian and Saving the Environment are separate choices.
in my opinion, being vegetarian is one of the best things you can do for the environment (so i strongly encourage it) BUT it is not the only thing. you can recycle, conserve energy, buy a hybrid car, donate money, etc. however, some people may think you are being hypocritical by trying to save the environment and then turning around and eating meat. the majority of people who try to help are vegetarian, but i think the more people the better, whether they are veg or not.
Depends on how far you want to save the environment.
Do you already recycle? Do you not waste electricy by turning off the appliances and lights when not in use? Do you walk or ride your bike instead of using engines to get you places? Do you wear organic cotton and natural fibers for clothes? Do you boycott company products because they pollute the environment when making the product? All of these will help to save the environment.
Choices in eating can help save the environment also. Domesticated animals cause alot of havoc on the earth's environment. They take resources that could go to people instead of them and then becoming a resource but going to less people. There excrement also contains alot of bad things for the environment (from their antibiotic use causing resistant strains in fecal matter, to the steriods in their urine, both entering the water table), Since dairy cows and chickens cause alot of havoc also, becoming vegan is the way to choose to help save the environment.
You are not a carnivore, but an omnivore (one who eats plants and animal flesh) And every little bit helps to save the environment, because collectively we can help save it for future generations to come.
you can help,but you would do more so if you were vegan/vegetarian.
Saving the Earth
All food animals consume several times more grain than they produce as meat. So several times as much land is needed to grow grain to feed animals, several times as much energy is used to harvest the grain and transport it, several times as much water is necessary, several times as much pesticides, etc. Worldwide petroleum reserves would be exhausted in 11 years if the rest of the world ate like the U.S. The least energy-efficient plant food is 10 times as efficient as the most efficient meat food. A nationwide switch to a pure vegetarian diet would allow us to cut our oil imports by 60%.
Over half of the water used in the U.S. is used to grow feed for livestock. It takes 100 times as much water to produce meat than to produce wheat. The water required to produce a day's diet for a typical American is 4,000 gallons. (It's 1,200 for vegetarians and 300 for vegans.) Compared to a vegan diet, three days of a typical American diet requires as much water as you use for showering all year (assuming you shower every day).
U.S. Livestock produce 250,000 pounds of waste per second -- 20 times as much as humans. A large feedlot produces as much waste as a large city, but without a sewage system. Animal waste washed into rivers and lakes causes increased nitrates, phosphates, ammonia, and bacteria, and decreases the oxygen content. This kills plant and animal life. The meat industry account for three times as much harmful organic waste as the rest of the industries in the U.S. combined.
It takes ten times as much land to produce food for an average American compared to a pure vegetarian. An acre of land can produce 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but only 165 pounds of beef. In the U.S., 260 million acres of forest have been destroyed for use as agricultural land to support our meat diet (over 1 acre per person). Since 1967, the rate of deforestation has been one acre every five seconds. For every acre cleared for urban development, seven acres are cleared to graze animals or grow feed for them.
Around 85% of topsoil loss is directly associated with raising livestock. We have lost 75% of our topsoil. The USDA says crop productivity is down 70% as a result of topsoil loss. It takes nature 500 years to build an inch of topsoil. Vegan diets make less than 5% of the demands on the soil as meat-based diets
no, btu it is recomended by alot of activists. if you want to help the environment and anilas, then yeah, go veg, but you dont ahve to. im 13 and ive been a vegan for almost 4 years. its not hard to eat vegan or even vegiterean. and most restaurants have a vegan menu!
The environmental impact of meat eating is staggering. Reduce your meat consumption, especially of large, slow growing animals such as beef. Don't think in absolutes (i.e. never eating meat ever). Learn to eat more vegetarian meals, go out of your way to recycle, adopt unwanted children, drive a small car, etc. Read "The Food Revolution" by John Robbins but don't get hung up in it. 16 vegans can eat using the same farm land needs as one meat eater. Farms used to be forest. Beef uses so many resources (to fertilize and grow feed, slaughter, ship, and refrigerate) that it is said that "it might as well be a product of the oil industry."