Question

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The production of animals for food has a greater impact on the environment than the production of plants for food (consider that to produce animals for food, you must first produce food for the animals). Does this mean that in order to conserve the environment everyone should become a vegetarian?   Explain your answer.

Answer 1

People become vegetarian for many reasons mainly health, religious or the desire to eat in a way that avoids excessive use of environmental resources. Nowadays plant based eating is recognized as not only nutritionally sufficient but also as a way to reduce the risk for many chronic illness. Vegetarians have a lower risk of death from cardiac causes. Livestock farming can have a devastating effects on the planet, because animal feed production takes up a lot of land and water. The cattle industry is energy inefficient, polutes the water, occupies many acres of land and deteriorates the health of people who abuses it's consumption. More use of animal products has a greater impact on environment. Land requirements are 6-17times larger for meat production than an equal amount of soy production .Hslf the world farmland used for livestock 70% of wheat production goes toward feed ,less land to grow crops for humans. Farming uses about 70% of water available to humans, but as demand for meat increase, so there will be less available for both crops and drinking water. So it would be better, we opt vegetarian food.