How does eating a vegetarian diet help reduce our contribution to global warming?

Question

Please be specific.

Answer 1

Because livestock account for 18% of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions.  Most of this is because cattle require large amounts of pastureland, which leaves less land for forests and other CO2-absorbing plants.

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Answer 2

farmer's markets are local and therefore require less transportaion pollution such as fossil fuel (gasoline) emissions

also if you eat fruits and veggies you're probably less likely to be using your stove (electric or gas or wood burn) as much, which helps reduce carbon emissions and electricity use(also usually made from fossil fuels)

Global Warming is an event that happens already BUT is made worse due to smog and other "magnifying lens" effect items like deforestation, messing up the weather systems, cities that increase the heat in an area which messes up precipitation or snow levels...which in turn effects everything else...

it's all related.

Answer 3

Actually by being a vegitarian, it reduces the meat produce in stores, thus the people kill less animals. The animals need to eat, right? so the government needs land to feed the animals. grass. The wreck down trees to make available space. And

those trees produce oxygen. With no oxygen the world will blow up! NO JUST KIDDING, but the first part is true.

Cooking less meat means no ovens, microwaves, and stoves.

ALOT cheaper!

Answer 4

Nadia and Nordic are both right.  Also, if you each meat, that animal ate plants.  The total amount of plants eaten if you eat an animal is a lot higher than if you just ate the plants yourself.  It's more efficient.

Answer 5

well the answer could be

1. By reducing meat demand which will lead to less cattle farming and reduced methane emissions.

But in my opinion, it would not help much. most of the emissions come from fossil fuel burning. in order to reduce GHG emission we have to seek other source of energy.

Answer 6

"How does eating a vegetarian diet help reduce our contribution to global warming?"

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Well, when things really get tough, for every vegetarian we eat, there will be one less person on the planet causing carbon emissions and competing for vital resources.

"Please be specific"

What, you want me to name the vegetarians?  I hope we reduce our impact on the planet so that our food shortages will never come to that level of desperation.

Answer 7

1)  Leafy vegetables are lighter than meat and therefore less polluting to transport

2)  Do not need to spend energy running slaughter houses

3)  Do not need to grow crops for animal feed.  Growing crops requires chemicals and equipment produced using green house gases.  

4)  Do not need to spend energy to keep animals warm during the winter

5)  Veggies don't produce methane from animal waste

Answer 8

Man does not contribute to global warming...eat whatever you like.

Answer 9

it doesn't eat the d**n cows that are producing the methane gas.  You eat the cow, no more cow farts, no more gas.