... just wondering. I was thinking about changing up my diet, but I don't want to exploit plants, fruits or vegetables in general.
Do Vegans Hate and Exploit Plants?
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62Nole
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If there are any vegans on here that do CrossFit, you are all in some trouble.
There was a study recently that said, if every American just ate vegetarian one day a year, and the livestock changed to meet that new demand that we'd cut America's CO2 emissions by 10 percent. If every American went vegetarian just one day a week, we'd easily surpass our commitment to the Paris climate agreement without any other changes.
When you combine the CO2 levels emitted by cows and the CO2 necessary to raise them, slaughter them, and transport them, it's a fairly large impact.
When you combine the CO2 levels emitted by cows and the CO2 necessary to raise them, slaughter them, and transport them, it's a fairly large impact.
Sorry.
It was a certain clip from 'Me, Myself, & Irene'.
The Carbon that have to do with livestock are already in the Global Carbon Cycle, except the transportation of the livestock..........it's the sequestered Carbon (e.g. oil, coal, natural gas) that is being introduced to the atmosphere that is the real problem.
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That defies all logic and math.
Reducing one single factor by less than a third of a percent couldn't possibly make a 10 percent overall difference no matter how fuzzy your math is.
If his post wasn't a typo, and it said one day a year, then that is ridiculous 1/365 = 0.27%. If it meant once a week, that is more reasonable, but still not likely. 52/365 = 14.2% reduction, but that would be assuming that livestock makes up the overwhelming majority of CO2 emissions. To reduce by 10% with a once a week reduction, livestock would need to make up over 70% of CO2 emissions. From a quick google, C02 of agriculture makes up 9% of CO2 emissions. Even if you add in Transportation and Production, it would still be far from 70%.
For the TLDR crowd, eating meat isn't going to end the world anytime soon.
This is the article I saw that on. The biggest change comes if every American adopted something like Meatless monday.
http://www.iflscience.com/environment/why-meatfree-one-day-year-according-science/
But it would be offset by an increase in everyone’s methane emissions.
I don't get this. Reducing demand for meat by 15% doesn't necessarily mean that farmers use 15% less of the resources involved in the production of that meat. It would have some impact, sure, but not 15%, and it doesn't account for an increased demand for other types of food we'd eat on Meatless Monday.
If you read the article closely, it says if everyone went meat-free for one year, it would be 10% of America's carbon emissions. Not one day, not one day a week, but an entire year. The math makes more sense if you count every American going completely meat free all year, every year. As an American meat eater, my response is ... effff that.
Looks like someone else caught it but as stated, that article doesn't say what one day would do. It says the total of meat production makes 10 percent of emissions. To get that reduction we would all have to go vegetarian.
"As a point of comparison, if everyone went meat-free for one year, this equates to 558 million tonnes of CO2, which according to our calculations is 10 percent of America’s total carbon emissions, as of 2015. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that all of America's agriculture produces 9 percent of the country's total emissions, which happily suggests that our calculations are broadly correct."
On a side note I should get some credit from these guys, I'm by no means a vegetarian, but I do eat a few vegetarian meals each week and probably a third of my meals at least are pescetarian..
