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Quote by: StrongHeartsWin  Pooey, I just have to ask you (which I did in PM but you didn`t address directly) that since methane gas has been identified as one of the leading gases that leads to global warming, and of all the causes that contribute to methane production, animal agriculture is one of the major ones, why wouldn`t you adopt a vegetarian diet to help impact on methane production? Is it that you feel only government and corporate enttities have the responsibility to address the problems through self regulation and that individuals shouldn't do as much as possible in their daily lives to do so?
If you feel that individuals in their daily lives are not under an onus of responsibility to make as much an effort as possible in contributing to lessening global warming, and lessening methane is quite within their ability to do so through consumer choice, then doesn`t that paint you as a hypocrite for not adopting a lifestyle that would best meet your concerns for global warming at an individual level? Individuals adopting a vegetarian diet could have a large impact on the problem in a positive way. |
Right, let me start off with my personal opinion that, as we are born to be omnivores, we've evolved to rely on eating meat for our protein and iron. However, current modern diet has far too much meat in it so whilst I'd yield to a lower in take of meat, I don't think a complete cessation of its ingestion is acceptable. Same reason why I'd accept that we need to be allowed to produce CO2 during energy production but it needs to be better regulated; a compromise is required.
Although Methane is a big player in the atmosphere, it's still 2nd place compared to
Carbon dioxide so in short, reducing our methane emissions will not have significant impact unless we curb that of the CO2.