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Title: Would the world be better if we were all vegetarians?
Post by: Just thinking on 15/09/2021 16:38:43
Would the world be better if we were all vegetarians? I like eating meat but I think of all the benefits if we stopped. I will try to list some benefits. Less livestock, only milking cows, more grass for the native animals, less ground erosion, less bad gas, less hardship and suffering, the animals that we still would have such as horses milking cows the odd bull and any hobby farm animals can be used at the end of there lives for pet food as they are now anyway. Can you see any other benefits or maybe the downside what do you think?
Title: Re: Would the world be better if we were all vegetarians?
Post by: alancalverd on 16/09/2021 09:13:31
Watch out for a new movie "Eating ourselves to extinction" released this week in cinemas. My original article in Physics World (July 2005) set out the calculations.

Incidentally the annual quiescent CO2 emission of a horse is about the same as a small car travelling 8000 miles. Animals are not green!
Title: Re: Would the world be better if we were all vegetarians?
Post by: Just thinking on 16/09/2021 11:31:08
Quote from: alancalverd on 16/09/2021 09:13:31
Watch out for a new movie "Eating ourselves to extinction" released this week in cinemas. My original article in Physics World (July 2005) set out the calculations.

Incidentally the annual quiescent CO2 emission of a horse is about the same as a small car travelling 8000 miles. Animals are not green!
Thanks, Alan I will watch that movie when it comes to Australia and you are correct about animals not being green. If we could harness their gas things would be different but I can't see how that is possible.
Title: Re: Would the world be better if we were all vegetarians?
Post by: Pseudoscience-is-malarkey on 07/10/2021 19:53:56
John Cleese's answer: No.
Title: Re: Would the world be better if we were all vegetarians?
Post by: Bored chemist on 07/10/2021 20:08:54
Quote from: alancalverd on 16/09/2021 09:13:31
Animals are not green!
In general, the green things are plants.