Are environmentalist becoming veggies, - yes/no - why?

Question

the UN did a report stating that veggies were better for the environment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sza-Qct0tI8

http://www.mun.ca/projectgreen/Articles/vegetarianism2005.php

Answer 1

and pot heads too

Answer 2

Veganism certainly helps reduce our footsteps on this planet... As L Murray answered earlier, less water is used to produce veggies, also less land (the land used for pasture, the land used to grow crops to feed those animals, the run off into our waterways of pesticides and refuse, etc, etc.)

It is not a perfect solution, as, to eat well when you are vegan, you can only get so many supplies locally, and eating locally as much as possible is good. So as a vegan, I buy as much produce locally as I can, and then try to purchase items that are either canadian, come from my own province, or are as close to home as possible. Buying organic or ethically grown veggies can be a consideration too.

Answer 3

For some  its a religion Mother Gia nature worship EXAMPLES

If radical environmentalists were to invent a disease to bring human populations back to sanity, it would probably be something like AIDS -- Earth First! Newsletter

We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion -- guilt-free at last! -- Stewart Brand (writing in the Whole Earth Catalogue

Human happiness, and certainly human fecundity, is not as important as a wild and healthy planets...Some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along. -- David Graber, biologist, National Park Service

The collective needs of non-human species must take precedence over the needs and desires of humans. -- Dr. Reed F. Noss, The Wildlands Project        

Cannibalism is a "radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation." -- Lyall Watson, The Financial Times, 15 July 1995

If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels. -- Prince Phillip, World Wildlife Fund

I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000 -- Paul Ehrlich in (1969)

In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish. -- Paul Ehrlich, Earth Day (1970)

The whole thing is about a UN Global Warming Tax on everyone  $$$$$$$$

Answer 4

eating less meat not only saves the environment but saves you $ too...

not everyone is becomeing a vegetarian, but many are cutting back on the amount of meat they eat..

in USA most Americans eat more meat than they should for health reasons alone.. heck most steaks here which we feed to 1 person , would feed a family of 4 in Japan.

Answer 5

Vegans eat less food per farm acre. Meat takes much more energy to make a pound of product. Meat takes much more water to make a pound of product. Meat production makes methane gas more than humans eating veggies. But like Bob said, it is the large farms that are causing most problems. Disposing of the discharges, disposing of the parts not used, disposing of the parts after sale, are all problems with meat. Humans that eat meat have a lower life expectancy.

Today here is what we know:  many of mankind’s advancements cause earth surface to warm, destroy the ozone layer, kill off endanger species, heat cities, and in some way cause more destruction.  Blacktop (roads and parking lots), buildings, air pollution (causes lung and other diseases), deforestation, duststorms (which increase hurricanes and cyclones and cause lung diseases), fires (cause pollution, mud slides, and deforestation), refrigerants (like CFC's), solvents (including benzene destroy the ozone layer raising skin cancer rates) and plastics; cars, airplanes, ships and most electricity production (causes pollution including raised CO2 levels) are human problems we need to fix to keep life on earth sustainable! The federal government needs to adopt a pollution surcharge to balance the field and advance new technologies. We must pay the real price of oil (petrochemicals) including global warming, cleanup and for health effects. But with that we must understand we have never seen what is now happening before. CO2 has never lead to temperature change, but temperature change has led to increases in CO2. The models have to be made as we go along with little evidence! The result is:  change is on the way, we just do not know what changes. But again adding a small amount of CO2 to the atmosphere enlarges the earths sun collection causing warming; increase water in the atmosphere and they form clouds cooling earth but causing flooding. Even natural events are warming earth and causing destruction. The sun has an increased magnetic field causing increases in earthquakes (more destruction), volcanoes (wow, great destruction), and sun spots. Lighting produces ozone near the surface (raising air pollution levels). But humans have destroyed half of the wetlands, cut down nearly half of the rain forest, and advance on the earths grasslands while advancing desertification which increases duststorms. The USA Mayor's have taken a stand and I believe are on the right track, we can have control and can have economic growth. With the peak of oil in the 1970’s, the peak of ocean fishing in the 1980’s, humans must stop procrastinating and make real changes to keep earth sustainable including in the energy debate, finance and regulation. The sun is available to produce energy, bring light to buildings and makes most of human’s fresh water. Composting is the answer to desertification. New dams are the answer to fresh water storage, energy and cooling earth by evaporation, we need many small ones all over (California needs 100 by 2012 and has not even started).

President Bush has made a choice of energy (ethanol) over food and feeding the starving people around the world; this is a choice China has rejected.

That is why I founded CoolingEarth.org, a geoengineering web sight where you can learn more about earth, the atmosphere, and how to sustain life on earth’s surface.

Answer 6

Come on...use a little 6th grade biology.Predators are on top of the food chain.Man wasn't design to be a strict herbivore.It's this reason we have the distinction of intelligence.And there are major class distinctions of prey verses predators in physiology as well.We are design for a specific purpose other wise we would have little fuzzy tails and would hop around on all fours.If that doesn't convince you then try eating soy protein....(nasty).

Answer 7

I became a vegetarian 11 years ago, in part because of the negative environmental impact of the meat industry.

EDIT: haha.. I got a thumbs down for what?  For being a vegetarian?  For one of the reasons being to reduce my impact on the environment?  Because I did it before the "go green" thing started?  I'm utterly confused.

Answer 8

Some yes, some no.  Matter of personal choice.

We don't have to stop doing things to fight global warming.  We just have to do them smarter.  Many of the problems with meat are due to management issues with large factory farms.

Answer 9

there are conservative ENvironmentalist.   They are the Teddy Roosevelt types.   THey protect the Environment  to ensure there are enough animals to hunt.   One of the most affective group in America in protecting the environment id Duck unlimited.   If there are any Peta type who come to annoy us here, remember, we own guns, we have no aversion to blood and one less human to us means that there is one less person contributing to the polution of this earth.