Does being a vegetarian help the environment?

Question

I've always loved the idea of saving the environment,but sadly im 15 and my parents think its silly so they dont recycle and stuff like that.But i have been a vegetarian for a year now and i was wondering it it helped the environment?

Answer 1

NO but the cult leaders continue to tell their followers that it does so that they will stay with the program and keep sending money to peta

Answer 2

It does help the environment. Just as was said above, the forests are often cleared for the raising of cattle. Cows are also the top producer of methane, or natural gas. There is a lot of waste leftover as well. Usually a lot of antibiotics or other growth hormones are used. The slaughterhouses also use tons of electricity, from the actual act of killing, to the refrigerated shipping of meats. To be fair, vegetable growers also use some resources to plant and harvest crops, but not nearly as much. Also, by not eating meat, you aren't killing animals, which can be considered helping the environment. If you want to take it the next step forward, consider organic products and shopping from local producers. This negates the need for pesticides and other unnatural products that you then eat, and often end up in the water supply from runoff. It also eliminates the extra pollution and use of resources to ship it to the area you live in. Also you should try to convince your parents the importance of recycling. Check out some websites for more information. Best of luck.

Answer 3

YES becoming a vegetarian saves 100's of animals every year. i was 13 when i became a vegetarian and my parents didnt like that...but i didnt care and continued with it...they didnt recycle either but i finally talked them into...what im getting at is that even thoug you are just 15 it dosent mean that you cant save the enviornment...i did it when i was around your age and i think it is 100% possible that you do the same. Good luck and stick to what you believe is right!

Answer 4

Your pal's argument that meat eaters are helping to cut back the farting cow inhabitants is between the dumbest issues i've got ever heard. If human beings did no longer consume meat, the producing facility farms on which maximum cows are pumped finished of hormones and slaughtered for the beef-eating public could lose their economic incentive to offer pork and can desire to theoretically use their land to plant grains or flowers. on the different, eating MEAT IS poor FOR the ecosystem!!! do no longer take my be conscious for it, examine a modern-day UN checklist titled "cattle's long Shadow" which i've got linked under. They conluded that eating meat is "between the main significant contributions to the main severe environmental issues, at each and every scale from community to worldwide." eating meat reasons virtually 40% extra greenhouse-gas emissions than each and every of the autos, vans and planes in the worldwide blended.

Answer 5

It sure does help the environment. I know a few people who are veg for environmental reasons alone. See these sites for more info:

http://www.emagazine.com/view/?142
http://goveg.com/environment.asp

-About one-third of the raw materials used in America each year is consumed by the farmed animal industry

-Farmed animals produce about 130 times as much excrement as the entire human population of the United States

-Nearly half of the water and 80 percent of the agricultural land in the United States are used to raise animals for food.

-More than 260 million acres of U.S. forest have been cleared to create cropland to grow grain to feed farmed animals.

-According to scientists at the Smithsonian Institute, the equivalent of seven football fields of land is bulldozed every minute to create more room for farmed animals.

-In a groundbreaking 2006 report, the United Nations (U.N.) said that raising animals for food generates more greenhouse gases than all the cars and trucks in the world combined. Senior U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization official Henning Steinfeld reported that the meat industry is “one of the most significant contributors to today’s most serious environmental problems.

Answer 6

It certainly does! It takes 10 pounds of vegetable matter (soybeans or corn) to make one pound of beef. By just eating the soybeans we could save a lot of money, and a lot of land.

Right now the rainforest in the Amazon Basin in South America is being cleared at a frightening rate, just to grow cows for McDonalds. After the trees are cleared away the land only lasts for three or four years, then the soil gets hard and it's no good. So they clear more trees!

Answer 7

as you go up the food chain, the energy required to produce whatever you are eating goes up. so in the sense of energy and the amount it takes to produce vegan foods, this lifestyle helps. Although, a farm in the sense of the way we used to run things decades ago was much closer to an environmentally-friendly system.

Answer 8

Yes...it does help the environment actually.

Many trees in the rainforests are cut down each year for slaughterhouses. That harms the environment and all the animals that live there.

http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/2062/argu.HTML#III2

Answer 9

Nope. Being vegetarian doesn't help the environment.

If you want to help the environment, recycle. If your parents think it's silly, recycle anyway.
Make recycling bins at home and take them to the recycling centre yourself.
Nag your parents (like they do you when you don't do your homework) and tell them how much they're hurting the environment for future generations.

Answer 10

yes it is good for the enviorment in many diffrent ways yet if everybody in the world became vegitarian we would definatly be overpopulated with animals :?