Comments on: The 4 Reasons People Go Vegetarian

By: Why Most Food Could Never Be Local - And what that means | Go Green or Die

Why Most Food Could Never Be Local - And what that means | Go Green or Die — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:17:40 +0000

[...] Many vegetarians are so for compassionate reasons; they don’t want to contribute to the suffering of animals. Others are vegetarians to reduce their impact on the planet, as raising beef, for example, requires ten times as much land and vastly more energy than growing the equivalent amount of calories in vegetables. These are two of the primary reasons people go veg. [...]

By: Me

Me — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:33:12 +0000

Good points, I think I will definitely subscribe! I’ll go and read some more! What do you see the future of this being?

By: Peas N Caring

Peas N Caring — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:18:38 +0000

I love your post! We definitely need to all go vegetarian if theres any kind of morality left for mankind. By the way, I found a similar article the other day with a few extra reasons why you should go veg. If you want to check it out it’s: http://www.kaycircle.com/index.php?q=10_reasons_to_become_a_Vegetarian

By: GreenHearted

GreenHearted — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:30:51 +0000

I have a feeling that another good reason to go veg*n en masse is karma. Billions of people killing and eating many more billions of other animals every year cannot be good for our species’ karmic piggy bank (pardon the pun), can it? Further, becoming a kinder, gentler species might help us have more compassion for future generations of our own and other species.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:53:23 +0000

5: Energy. Cooling meat costs a lot
6: Water.

By: uberVU - social comments

uberVU - social comments — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:24:48 +0000

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By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:19:09 +0000

One more reason: Resource Conservation.

It takes 10 lbs of grain and 100 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of beef. If we reduced our meat consumption and rather focused on producing vegetables and grains for human consumption, we could essentially eliminate the world wide food shortages.