Is being partially vegetarian good for the environment?

Or does it have a negligible impact?



For example, eating meat only 3 times a week or less. Does reducing the amount of meat consumed help, or not really?Is being partially vegetarian good for the environment?
YES! Becoming a partial vegetarian is very good for the environment. It has actually been advocated by several environmental groups. When you choose to lower the amount of meat you eat, you lower the demand. When demand drops, the livestock farmers stop forcing animals to reproduce at such a high rate.

The total number of livestock- chickens, cows, pigs, goats, sheep, is 15 BILLION, they out number people 3 to 1. The sheer number of livestock are using up the earths resources every second of their lives. Further, consider that producing 1 pound of steak from a feedlot results in the loss of 35 pounds of topsoil. Topsoil takes 200-1,000 years to form 1 inch. Then think about this, "one acre of prime land can produce many pounds of edible product. Here are a few examples:



30,000 pounds of apples

40,000 pounds of potatoes

50,000 pounds of tomatoes

250 Pounds of beef



-Carole Raymond



When you think about it, all of the plant food we can grow on 1 acre of land could feed more people with a lower impact on the environment than meat. Here's another thing to consider, it takes 2,500 gallons of water to produce 1 edible pound of beef. It takes 49 gallons of water to produce 1 edible pound of apples. Obviously, growing plant food uses fewer resources than raising livestock.



Every little bit of meat you cut out of your diet helps the earth. You don't have to cut out meat completely, but partial vegetarianism is a fabulous way to help reduce your impact on the environment. I'm a partial vegetarian myself. Remember, a dollar spent is a dollar voted. If people want less meat produced, buy less. Reduce demand. Hope this helps!



P.S. If you're looking for a good vegetarian cookbook, Deborah Madison's Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone is one of the greatest cookbooks of our time.
Absolutely!



Let's assume the average meat eater eats about 20 animals a year. That is a very conservative estimate, less than half a chicken a week.



If you cut out half the meat, that is at least 10 animals you don't eat. Given the fact that there are more and more part-time 'vegetarians' out there, all of you together actually reduce the demand of meat by millions of animals a year.



Also you have a positive impact on the environment as soon as you cut back on meat. In terms of CO2 emissions 1 day of average meat eating (the meat alone) equals about 24 kilometers of driving a car.Is being partially vegetarian good for the environment?
You cannot be partially vegetarian. You either are vegetarian or your not. Reducing your meat intake is the smallest baby step in a decent direction hopefully but it isn't going very far. Meat isn't healthy for you or the environment or most especially the animals you eat. It is much simpler and better to just eliminate all animal products from your life it will be better for all.



You are right about supply and demand. However we have to also work to shut them down and not just wait a while for people to stop.
It is very good for the environment.

1. It takes 100 acres to produce enough beef for 20 people but enough wheat to feed 240 people.

2. We use a large amount of water to feed cattle (which is contributing to the water shortage we have now).



Europeans eat about half the amount of meat Americans eat weekly.

Not just that, it is also very good for you!



Hope this helped!Is being partially vegetarian good for the environment?
It helps ut only a little. Meat eating is bad for the environment because it increases CO2 emmissions, means that rainforest gets chopped down and that loads of land is taken up to provide only a small amount of food. With one feild of cows you could feed 2 meat eaters for a months but about 8 veggies if it was full of crops.
It has both a negative and a positive. And it depends on the animal population.



Negative- Its negative because if there wasn't any farmers for cattle and stuff then it could impact the whole predator and pray thing. I.E. in hunting they give you tags depending on if there are more Doe or Bucks. There has to be some kind of balance.



Positive- Well i can think of more negative reasons but here's one. It could be the exact opposite reason of the above. By being vegetarian it could balance out the animal population.



I can't think of positives right now but there are some out there. Hope this helps :)
Your killing us, you should eat more meat. If carbons are released by cattle, then shouldn't you eat more, the less you eat the longer these things stay alive to destroy us. Put on your thinking cap young person.
not eating meat wont stop people from not killing animals. they are already dead, not to sound like a barbarian but, might as well eat em.
It's like any environmental thing: every little bit helps.