If farm animals like cows are such a contributing factor to climate change, what do you eat?

Question

have all these enviromentalists become vegetarian?? i hope for the sake of honesty to ones self, you are.

let me say this...if you are still eating farm animals and are a proponent of climate change, you need to shut your pie hole till you get yourself square with mother nature..mk?

Answer 1

I was thinking about this last night, and you beat me too it!!!! :P

Evidently these morons think that the wild animals that would have otherwise foraged for grass, fruits, vegetables and *other animals* on what we now use as farmland would have emitted nice, clean, natural methane free farts. Maybe they would have even been green farts!!!!

I think I'll look into this the next time I drive the SUV up to enjoy ANWR.

Answer 2

Do you walk to work or take a lunch?

The point is your logic is a bit of a stretch don't you think? Cows and agriculture were around long before global warming. Contributing factors are not root causes.

Do you think Inuit people shouldn't eat seal because of global warming? They contributed very little to it, should they have to change the lifestyle that has sustained them for 1000 years?

What exactly, other than inefficient use of materials, is your point? If the animal is used efficently and not wasted, I see no difference between me eating a steak and a lion eating a steak ... other than the CO2 caused by the BBQ.

You can argue vegetarianism from a health perspective, but arguing it from a global warming perspective is a heck of a stretch!

Answer 3

There are simple things that we can all do to offset our greenhouse gas emissions. I've done things which mean I can eat as many 16 ounce sirloins as possible, drive around in a Hummer, set alight to tire dumps and still have a negative impact on the environment.

We don't need to sacrifice the things that we enjoy - it's all about balance; if you take something then give something back in return.

To put it into context - cattle of all kinds produce 18% of the methane emissions, methane contributes just under 8% to the total anthropogenic global warming. If domesticated cattle represent half the total head then the contribution to AGW is 0.72%. Stopping eating meat will make a difference but the difference is less than changing just one lightbulb to a CFL.

Answer 4

I agree - you cant be a 'greeny' and be taken seriously and still eat meat considering the massive impact intensive farming has.

Hey I am vegetarian and I eat everything except cows, sheep etc

And just for the record: re buffalo
it is the massive run off of manure from intensive farming in bulk feedlots that contributes the most damage to the environment. The Gulf area at the base of North America is highly polluted from this run off that has occurred for many years now.
In the 'old' days the buffalo werent all living in an area so small they were unable to move around so the run off was spread over the land in a healthy and sustainable way.

it is us humans who have to have so much, who eat so much meat, who consume everything and dont put much back that cause the most impact on the world. (yep, im one of them)

Answer 5

They're not. The calculation that cows contribute 18% of the total greenhouse gases (or whatever it was) was based on an estimate of cow emissions made in the 1930s. Recently a scientist at UC Davis did a study where he basically put cows in a big dome (a "bovine bubble") to trap and measure their gases, and found them to be half as much as previously thought.

http://www-dateline.ucdavis.edu/dl_detail.lasso?id=8122

In short, cows are not a significant contributor to climate change.

Answer 6

I've been vegetarian for almost 20 years. When I cook at home, we have stirfried veggies, pizza, pasta dishes & lots of other things. We used to eat a lot of meat analogs but have lost interest in most of it except for Tofurkey sausage, which is really tasty. When we go out to eat, it's often Thai, Greek, Indian or a great vegetarian place that is close to us.

Answer 7

We can not be only vegetarian or only non-vegetarian. That is impracticable. The equilibrium is achieved when we have a sustainable mix in the society.
Over doing or over-indulgence can lead to trouble for the planet.

Answer 8

U need to research your theory as methane is not there. What the environmentalist done with it. If methane is not there neither is global warming . There is a problem with methane as it is very light so it may go 55 miles up . How did they measure it. If u check it is not there either,where is the methane???

Answer 9

We don't have to stop doing things to fix global warming. We just have to do them more efficiently.

There are many ways an individual can work to reduce global warming. People can choose the ones that appeal to them.

Here's the big scale plan to fix global warming:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,481085,00.html
http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM040507.pdf

Answer 10

if we stop eating cow, then they will become unemployed. You will then not be able to get into any bars as all the cows spend their unemployment benifit.