Global Warming - Will you become a vegatarian?

Question

UN IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri has suggested that people should consider becoming vegetarian to stop global warming.

Although he emphasized this was his personal view and not an option put forward in the UN's IPCC's report.

"If people were to eat less meat perhaps they would be healthier. At the same time you cut out a lot of the emissions associated with the beef cycle," he said.

"Right from the moment you produce meat, then you transport it, refrigerate it and sell it to the retail store (greenhouse gas emissions are produced)."

Pachauri said these were examples of "lifestyle changes where you are not giving up anything."

"In fact you might actually gain by taking some of these measures. We are asking society to reflect on this," he said.

Are you willing to become a vegan to save the planet?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070504/lf_afp/unclimatewarming_070504145110;_ylt=ApjHjp_JPBlTVkXYyr_lh9trAlMA

Answer 1

Absolutely not. The U.S. government as well as the 'world' (UN) government is slowly taking over personal rights like smoking, deciding what we should eat (removal of trans fats), etc. I am holding on to my rights as long as I can. I should be able to smoke if I want to and eat what I want, and so should everyone else. These things should be personal choices...somehow it's not okay to smoke in front of kids, yet we have the 'choice' of killing unborn babies, etc. This new age/new world agenda is all very hypocritical.

I bet Pachauri isn't willing to give up his tandoori chicken or his lamb kebabs.

Answer 2

I'm not sure that becoming vegan is that healthy. I know people who have done it and they have had a lot of problems. Vegetarianism is healthier and certainly easier to maintain, but you would still need cows and chickens for the eggs and milk. I also think that a lot of emissions are also created in the farming, shipping, and refrigeration of vegetables and fruit. The ideal solution is a smaller population that is less dependent on mass farms. If we could get most of our food from local community growers and private gardens, that would be healthier and also better for the planet. (Whether you believe in global warming or not, it's just common sense that the oil isn't going to last forever.)

Answer 3

That is the most stupid thing I have ever read in my life. Homo Sapiens are omnivores, not herbivores, not carnivores. They are supposed to eat both plant and animal products. Just because some no name at the UN thinks that the whole world should be vegan doesn't mean I'm going to run out and do it. How can he say people would be healthier if they didn't eat meat? Last I heard, the vegan lifestyle was actually not very healthy at all.

Answer 4

No. I won't completely give up meat to save the planet because I enjoy meat and it won't save the planet.

Carbon from the production and storage of meat is a very, very small fraction of total emissions. Making tiny changes isn't going to save the world. It will just drive down the price of coal or oil based energy and delay the economic viability of green tech.

A better solution, and a solution more palletable to most people, would be to substantially reduce meat consumption or refuse to consume factory farmed meat.

PS- Anyone still claiming global warming is a hoax is about 15 years behind the scientific consensus. Pull your heads out of the sand, the data doesn't lie.

Answer 5

Yeah. I'll become a vegetarian again.
I was one for 8 years.. Going fully vegan (no animal bi products at all) is more challenging, but it can be done,

heck, there goes the obesity crisis right there,
if everyone were vegetarian, the world would be a better, more kinder place to live,

I really believe peace starts at the dinner table.
And a bonus is more energy, low body fat, good skin, and a positive attitude.

right now, I only eat chicken and fish,
but it's far from every day, I try to eat as little of it as possible and I feel guilty for it, I think I'll eventually give meat up completely again.

And despite what a poster stated, you CAN get good protien from other sources, such as soy, and they are in fact complete proteins, complete proteins go a very long way,
when we were evolving, we didn't eat meat every day, we had to stretch it out, our bodies know how to store protein very efficiently.
Most of the health problems you see today are stemmed from TOO much protein among other things like saturated fat, mostly from animal fats.

Answer 6

first of all! global warming a hoax?! are you crazy!!! The fre***g north pole is melting.

stupidity really has no limits, does it?

argh, no I'm not going to become a vegan. I like my meat, and screw everyone that gets in my way. on the OTHER HAND, what we should all is CONSUME SMARTER AND BETTER.

That means don't go buy some food and not it, don't buy it if you don't need it, control your consumption of everything.
You don't have to have beef 7 times a week. If u do, start changing.
it's not just food, it's everything in your life style. power, electricity, clothes, traveling by foot or car.
when you make a decision, ask yourselves,
1. if it will impact the environnement.
2. if you really need to do it
3. is there an alternative, and healthier way to do it

Answer 7

Global warming is a ruse to allow the destruction of our economy, our country and our freedoms

from http://www.bitterroot.com/grizzly/ENVRONMT.HTM
Maurice Strong primary designer of the Earth Summit asked, "Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?" . Futurist Barr, Commoner writes that "nothing less than a change in the political and social system, including revision of the Constitution, is necessary to save the country from destroying the natural environment." He adds, "capitalism is the earth's number one enemy." Taking Commoner one step further, Judi Bari of Earth First! says, "I think if we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of saving the world ecologically. "I think it is possible to have an ecologically sound society under socialism. I don't think it is possible under capitalism."

from http://www.sovereignty.net/p/ngo/ron.html


"I have three important premises to provide a general context for my perspective. First, nature bats last. The second premise is that the house is on fire. Finally, in times of crisis our plans [should] be commensurate with the scale of the problems. We need something akin to another Marshal Plan-starting with restructuring the rulemaking processes for the global economy-to provide a roadmap to help reverse dangerous trends and get us to a better world."

The first two premises are bogeymen we must fear if we are to answer his later call to action.

* Nature bats last. Catchphrase meaning nature will destroy you if you violate her rules, and capitalism violates nature's rules. We're doomed.

* The house is on fire. Capitalism is the fire, earth is the house, capitalism is destroying everything, air, water, soil, all life on earth. We're doomed.

That's sufficient reason to justify destroying capitalism.

Answer 8

I will become a Vegan to save the animals,the environment,my health,and contribute to the planet .I am now not a full Vegan,but I'm working on it.I really do believe however,if people saw the actual slaughter of the animals they now eat,and the conditions which allot of the animals live their short lives in, before slaughter,more people would become more compassionate, and want to become Vegans.Animals Cry.!

Answer 9

As a Vegetarian myself, it will never happen.

Einstein said that "Vegetariansm is the next evolution of human beings". First though we have to get back to being human beings and we are miles away from that at the moment due to our own stupidity.

Can these people stop driving their cars and flying on planes first? That might help the threat.

Answer 10

i read that in china, rice fields are their biggest producer of co2. more than the manufacturing sector. being a vegetarian is not as helpful as you might think. plus with all the extra animals in the world. some would have to destroyed and then peta would be on us for that. can't win for loosing.