The first thing many people ask when they hear about the vegetarian diet is "What's wrong with eating meat? Millions of people do it; why should I stop?"
This part explores the human physiological evidence that we are not designed to eat meat; from our lips to our digestive systems, humans are entirely like vegetarian animals and completely unlike meat eating animals.
As long as there are low prices for the things that harm the environment the most, there will be little incentive for any agricultural industries to make any moves such as these. In my opinion, the incentive should be provided by the government (sadly, with some of our tax dollars).
Government programs have recently made some big steps in the right direction. I estimated that the "Cash for Clunkers" program removes between 5,700,000,000 and 4,950,000,000 pounds of CO2 per year. I've heard of a new program that is supposed to do the same thing for inefficient appliances.
The American diet is driven largely by the price of our food choices. Unfortunately for meat lovers, this will have an effect on their wallets -- very much like recent tobacco taxes, making the price for a pack of cigarettes double over the last few years.
Meat sucks! So, I headed over to YouTube to see a couple videos that are in the vein (pun intended) of meat eaters being the worst thing hurting the environment.
Go Vegetarian! Meat is not green !
This girl goes on for a while and calls out Al Gore for not being a vegetarian - she asks how he can claim to be an environmentalist if he continues to love eating meat. I agree 100%!
“[The meat industry is] one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global.” - The United Nations
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