Vegetarians vs. carnivores:global warming?

Question

ok,vegetarians say that carnivors are desroying the earth

but wait.vegetariens eat the plants wich produces oxygen for we can breath

carnivors S**t out the dead animal then that animal will become food for the plants

so who are the good guys??

Answer 1

First of all, you're probably an omnivore.

Second, everybody poops.

You can stretch the resources more and have fewer significant impacts on the environment by eating a vegetarian diet.  To feed the world's human omnivores takes a lot of land, a lot of water, and grain that could feed people instead of cows, who then produce methane, a greenhouse gas with an attitutude.

Good guys are the ones who are aware of how things work and makes every effort to minimize impacts.

Answer 2

The animals you eat have to eat too.  You are actually responsible for consumption of more plant foods than vegetarians.

And boatman, I don't push my "agenda" on anyone.  I don't give my opinion unless asked.  There are just as many meat-eaters who hassle vegetarians as the other way around.

Answer 3

True environmentalists DON'T eat/use animal products.  

Hey flesh-eaters: Enjoy your E.Coli, Salmonella, hormones, mad cow disease and rotting colon.

Answer 4

Most meats are raised in an industrial fashion in which the majority of grains produced go to feeding such animals such as cattle. The U.N. reports it takes 8 pounds of grain just to get one pound of beef a very poor ratio indeed. In fact a 2006 United Nations report summarized the devastation caused by the meat industry by calling it "one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global."

Animals also take up an exponential amount of land, water, transportation, refrigeration, etc than plant based materials. In fact raising animals for food is so inefficient world hungry could be solved by everyone simply eating a vegetarian diet. This includes factors such as war, drought, and transportation issues of course.  

Then of course there is this issue of methane which has 23 times then heat trapping abilities of CO2. "It is estimated that 64% of global warming worldwide is caused by carbon dioxide, followed by methane (20%)....Animal agriculture accounts for a large part for the exhaust of methane, as this gas is released from the digestion of ruminants (cows, sheep, goats, buffalos, a.o.) and in lesser amounts from animal manure. A report of the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation) shows that globally, about 16% of all methane emissions come from animal agriculture." "a single dairy cow produces approximately 120 pounds of wet manure per day. Estimates equate the waste produced per day by one dairy cow to that of 20-40 humans per day." In other words it is so much you know what you can not even comprehend the total amount for all industrial animals raised for meat but you can pretty well guess what this is doing to the environment.

Answer 5

First of all, I prefer to call myself an omnivore. I don't only eat meat you know! Meat is a natural food source for humans, just as it is for sharks, lions, etc. Global warming is not man-made.

Leave our meat alone!!!

Answer 6

there's no point of good or bad,its nature.nature balances it self and we are a part of nature

Answer 7

Some people choose to be vegitarians and have to take pills to get other nutrients.  Some people choose not to, and eat everything and have a healthy balanced diet.  Who cares?  Eat what you like, and if anyone tells you different, slap the sh*t out of them.  And what we eat has nothing to do with global warming.  Again, if anyone tells you different, slap the sh*t out of them!

Answer 8

How about this novel idea - what you choose to eat is your business and doesn't have anything to do with the weather.

Answer 9

Vegi Eaters are just kooks that want to push their agenda onto the rest of the population. I am all FOR personal freedom until it invades the inside of my house!

Look inside your mouth-- see that row of teeth-- they were placed there by millions of years of genetic history of meat eating humans.

Answer 10

The amount of plants and water needed to raise the animals that will be eaten is far more than that needed to grow enough veggies for everyone to eat.  The amount can be even less if you eat local produce, or grow your own.  Also to be taken into consideration is the amount of fuel needed to transport the livestock to and from the farms, slaughterhouses, and stores.  I could go on, but I won't.  Hope this helps.

Answer 11

omnivores, not carnivores...and neither they nor vegetarians affect solar activity (the driving force of climate change).