Has anybody done any research that "Are people willing to reduce meat intake to help tackle climate change?"

Question

Please gimme the research studies or links on this issue.

Answer 1

Eh from my point of few?   No.   Nothing like a great stake.  or a burger on the grill.

No. and again I say No.

Answer 2

One of the reasons I am vegan is for the benefits it bestows upon the environment. It is vastly more efficient in land, water, and energy use than using such resources to raise animals for human consumption.

"According to a new report published by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the livestock sector generates more greenhouse gas emissions as measured in CO2 equivalent – 18 percent – than transport. It is also a major source of land and water degradation." Also according to the UN it takes 8 kilograms of grain just to get 1 kilogram of beef.

Here's some of the research I think you were looking for.

http://geosci.uchicago.edu/%7Egidon/pape...

"Eshel and Martin collected that data from a wide range of sources, and they examined the amount of fossil-fuel energy -- and thus the level of production of greenhouse gases -- required for five different diets. The vegetarian diet turned out to be the most energy efficient, followed by poultry, and what they call the "mean American diet," which consists of a little bit of everything.

There was a surprising tie for last place. In terms of energy required for harvesting and processing, fish and red meat ended up in a "virtual tie," but that's just in terms of energy consumed. When you toss in all those other factors, such as bovine flatulence and gas released by manure, red meat comes in dead last. Fish remains in fourth place, some distance behind poultry and the mean American diet, chiefly because the type of fish preferred by Americans requires a lot of energy to catch. "

In short what I have found in less than five minutes of researching the research already out there is that meat consumption creates more GHG (green house gases) than all  our driving, trucking, training, planing, etc combined. And that the best diet you can eat is vegan and the worst is red meat in specific beef surprisingly followed in a close second worst by fish.

Answer 3

I'd just convert to Soylent Green.  It even has "soy" and "green" in it's name!  That's GOT to be "eco-friendly"...

Answer 4

I don't want to tell anyone what to eat, but I think we in the west have gotten into a mindset where we think we have to eat meat at nearly every meal.



Yes it does contribute to global warming.  We have an unnatural number of cattle in the world.  

The methane from manure can be partially mitigated by using it in anaerobic digesters to capture methane for power.

Answer 5

That is absolutely ridiculous!!!!  The only outcome is to wipe out all the cows that pass gas, leave dung and breath, which would help us out?  So, you want us to spend millions or even billions into research to say that eating meat contributes to global warming...  How stupid do you think people are????

Take the post just previous to mine for example...  Seems like that poster wants to eliminate all living mammals and fish in order to allow us to exist longer.....  OMG, now we can't even share the planet?  What a bunch of hypocritical c**p!!!!

Answer 6

If it doesn't involve raising taxes or creating lots of top jobs for beaurocrats, the govenment woudn't be interested.

Reducing CO2 for the sake of reducing CO2 is not what governments are about.

Answer 7

Those goofy concepts help discredit the larger environmental debates which bring up real issues that need to be addressed.

Just what is the point of reducing the number of cows being raised by the beef industry?  If the hay and grain they eat doesn't turn into methane in their bellies, it will decompose and turn into methane anyway out in the fields and forests!

And there is the small matter of all of the untold billions of wild animals who eat meat and vegetation that turns into methane in their bodies.  Why is that OK?

And finally, whether you eat feedlot beef....free range chicken....or tomatoes you grow in your own back yard, its all going to turn into the same byproducts inside your own digestive tract.  Including METHANE.

No go buy a hamburger while you still can, sheesh.