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on the issue about clothes, I buy fair trade, or resale that my school supports.

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And notsojoey, are you serious that cattle aren't shipped to slaughter houses? Or was that sarcastic? If it was, I apolgize for this. HAVE YOU NEVER SEEN CATTLE OR HOG TRAILERS?!?!?!?!?! you know the two-level chambers of torture?

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Originally posted by horseartistgrl27:
no I wasn't sayingthat that that's it's bad that the animals are living and creating more emissions, we're creating more emissions by having to have them trasported.

Plus, it's bad for the environment to have less wild animals, and that is not made up for by dommestic farm animals.

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notsojoey:
Nice point. What Clpo fails to understand is that humans have breed animals into a super bread for the sole purpose of ruining the environment. Come on Vegans, back me up.

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Animals have existed on Earth for hundreds of thousands of years. The planet has handled their methane emissions with no ill effects.

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c.Those cattle were transported to the slaughter house in a trailer, using fuel.

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Methane and Vegetarianism
By far the most important non-CO2 greenhouse gas is methane, and the number one source of methane worldwide is animal agriculture.

Methane is responsible for nearly as much global warming as all other non-CO2 greenhouse gases put together. Methane is 21 times more powerful a greenhouse gas than CO2. While atmospheric concentrations of CO2 have risen by about 31% since pre-industrial times, methane concentrations have more than doubled. Whereas human sources of CO2 amount to just 3% of natural emissions, human sources produce one and a half times as much methane as all natural sources. In fact, the effect of our methane emissions may be compounded as methane-induced warming in turn stimulates microbial decay of organic matter in wetlands—the primary natural source of methane.

With methane emissions causing nearly half of the planet’s human-induced warming, methane reduction must be a priority. Methane is produced by a number of sources, including coal mining and landfills—but the number one source worldwide is animal agriculture. Animal agriculture produces more than 100 million tons of methane a year. And this source is on the rise: global meat consumption has increased fivefold in the past fifty years, and shows little sign of abating. About 85% of this methane is produced in the digestive processes of livestock, and while a single cow releases a relatively small amount of methane, the collective effect on the environment of the hundreds of millions of livestock animals worldwide is enormous. An additional 15% of animal agricultural methane emissions are released from the massive “lagoons” used to store untreated farm animal waste, and already a target of environmentalists’ for their role as the number one source of water pollution in the U.S.

The conclusion is simple: arguably the best way to reduce global warming in our lifetimes is to reduce or eliminate our consumption of animal products. Simply by going vegetarian (or, strictly speaking, vegan), , , we can eliminate one of the major sources of emissions of methane, the greenhouse gas responsible for almost half of the global warming impacting the planet today.

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Well, considering she hasn't logged in in 10 months, I highly doubt you are going to get an answer. You'd think somebody with your "intelligence" would be able to figure that out.

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Originally posted by someday355:
Well, considering she hasn't logged in in 10 months, I highly doubt you are going to get an answer. You'd think somebody with your "intelligence" would be able to figure that out.