Would You Turn Vegetarian to Slow Global Warming?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

There will always be rats.

More like - there will always be cockroaches.

[HannahP 119]

There will always be rats.

More like - there will always be cockroaches.

True, but rats make better pets.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

There will always be rats.

What if the taste of human steak too delicious to resist for you?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

There will always be rats.

What if the taste of human steak too delicious to resist for you?

I think I'd rather eat that over rat.

[DeadPoolX 9]

There will always be rats.

What if the taste of human steak too delicious to resist for you?

I think I'd rather eat that over rat.

We could have the best of both worlds:

[ahmed and tetyana 0]

I choose to be a vegetarian because the thought of killing animals and putting their dead carcass in my mouth makes me sick.

I totally with you

I've being a vegan for almost 5 years and loving it.

[ahmed and tetyana 0]

Meh. I'm an ethical vegetarian, have been for 15 years. I do cook humanely slaughtered, free-range, sustainable meat for my husband. (Vegetarianism is my choice, not his.)

You go girl.

My husband is cooking his own food because i don't touch anything that belongs to a living things.

Can't really say that slowing global warming EVER popped into my head re. being a vegetarian. I don't think it occurs to most vegetarians, although that tends to become a secondary thang.

the living conditions for cows are horrendous. They often stand in areas with little-to-no room and are surrounded by their own feces. Eventually these cows acquire an infection or two, so antibiotics are given -- which apparently get absorbed into the cow's meat and can trickle down into those who eat the cow later on. The cows are also given growth hormones which adversely affect them.

:crying: :crying:

[Nessa 23]

[Kevin and 10]

I don't eat that much meat - mainly fish. But because of GW.

IMO there are more environmental problems related to intensive agriculture in regards to cereal crops.

Anybody who has driven across the US knows the truth about agriculture, at least in America. Beef cattle are raised in areas that are too dry and infertile to support efficient plant crops. These areas aren't watered.

The real issue becomes the crops that we are growing in the more fertile areas and the amount of water that they consume. Fruit farming takes the most water. Fruit is something that we all need. Cereal crops, potatoes, and vegetables for human consumption are grown in slightly less fertile areas and take somewhat less water.

However, if you think that meat consumption can or should be reduced by increasing grain, vegetable, and fruit consumption, you need to check the food pyramid. The real issue are fields that cover most of the Midwest. These fields grow alternately soy beans and feed corn. These crops require complementary nutrient content and so the rotation allows farmers to avoid fallow years.

The feed corn is used to feed the cattle during the parts of the year when Wyoming and Texas don't grow grass naturally. While you could stop growing the feed corn, that wouldn't allow you to grow more soy beans or other meat substitutes.

While it's true that a calorie of grain creates less green-house gas than a calorie of beef, it's important to remember that a balanced diet actually requires protein. Furthermore, farm animals often use natural resources that we couldn't use to create edible plant foods (Wyoming).

I'm not suggesting that we should be eating 3 burgers a day with steaks on the weekend. But eating eggs, dairy products, and occasional red or white meat isn't really hammering the environment like PETA would like you to think that it is.

The attached article goes over some of this.

http://www.slate.com/id/2176420/

I'm talking about intensive agriculture stripping the nutrients out of the soil and causing desertification - that's something that can and does happen.

Don't forget the runoff of the chemical fertilizers, insecticides, and herbicides.

[JVKn'CVO 11]

Cows make green house gases...plants make oxygen...eat the problem, not the solution!

Saludos,

Caro

[DeadPoolX 9]

Cows make green house gases...plants make oxygen...eat the problem, not the solution!

Saludos,

Caro

My wife says I contribute to that problem more than cows do.

[JVKn'CVO 11]

Cows make green house gases...plants make oxygen...eat the problem, not the solution!

Saludos,

Caro

My wife says I contribute to that problem more than cows do.

Saludos,

Caro

[Ban Hammer 14,269]

Cows make green house gases...plants make oxygen...eat the problem, not the solution!

Saludos,

Caro

My wife says I contribute to that problem more than cows do.

ditto

[Nessa 23]

[DeadPoolX 9]

Here's my solution...