What If The World Went Vegetarian?
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What if everyone became a vegetarian right now? Becoming Vegetarian for 21 Days: https://youtu.be/9iQKLSw15WM Subscribe for more: http://bit.ly/asapsci Written by Tyler Irving, Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown GET THE ASAPSCIENCE BOOK: http://asapscience.com/book/ FOLLOW US! Instagram and Twitter: @whalewatchmeplz and @mitchellmoffit Clickable: http://bit.ly/16F1jeC and http://bit.ly/15J7ube AsapINSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/asapscience/ Facebook: http://facebook.com/AsapSCIENCE Twitter: http://twitter.com/AsapSCIENCE Tumblr: http://asapscience.tumblr.com Vine: Search "AsapSCIENCE" on vine! SNAPCHAT 'whalewatchmeplz' and 'pixelmitch' Created by Mitchell Moffit (twitter @mitchellmoffit) and Gregory Brown (twitter @whalewatchmeplz). Send us stuff! ASAPSCIENCE INC. P.O. Box 93, Toronto P Toronto, ON, M5S2S6 Further Reading / Sources: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/feed_the_world/2014/05/meat_eating_and_climate_change_vegetarians_impact_on_the_economy_antibiotics.html http://www.nationalgeographic.com/foodfeatures/feeding-9-billion/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism_by_country http://faostat3.fao.org/home/E http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a0701e/a0701e00.HTM http://www.un.org/en/events/desertificationday/background.shtml http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/resources/en/publications/tackling_climate_change/index.htm http://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/global.html http://dels.nas.edu/resources/static-assets/banr/AnimalProductionMaterials/StehfestClimate.pdf http://www.unep.org/resourcepanel/Portals/24102/PDFs/PriorityProductsAndMaterials_Report.pdf http://waterfootprint.org/media/downloads/Report-48-WaterFootprint-AnimalProducts-Vol1.pdf http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1305827110 http://www.nature.com/news/humans-are-becoming-more-carnivorous-1.14282
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Yeah it'd be nice if everyone became vegetarian, for our health and the environment, that's obviously not gonna happen though. Maybe someday, when were all forced to have more greens than browns on our plate.
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I'm starting my vegetarian life today
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if the world ate only vegetarian the only food I would eat would be corn 🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🍕🌽🌽🌽
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Then those 30% indians are helping in managing climate change
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So many one sided, selfish view points in the comments. It doesn't matter how pure you believe your opinion to be, there will ALWAYS be someone else that disagrees with it because, they too, believe their opinion to be pure.
So here is my TWO-sided opinion.
I believe the world needs a balance of meat-eaters, vegans and vegetarians. Balance is the key to everything. If you disagree with balance, you're on a one way trip to Suplex City. -
I'm vegetarian, and I appreciate this video!
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The world couldn't go vegetarian without going vegan as well because in order to have dairy, you need to rape cows. What results from a raped cow? A calf and milk. People want to take the milk, and with the calf, they want to save it if it's female to rape it and make more milk. If it's male then what are they gonna do? The only practical option is to kill the male calf so that farmers don't have to feed a bunch of cows that aren't serving any purpose. You only really need a handful of bulls and their semen to rape all the cows...
Admit it everyone - veganism is the only way to go! -
proud to be vegantarian
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u r gonna fail.
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I'd kill my self
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The example of managing global warming by cutting off on eating meat is sort of counterintuitive to me. Like you correctly mentioned, over a billion people are financially dependent on the animal husbandry industry, a large portion of which is dedicated to raising animals for the purpose of meat. If there is a ban on meat consumption (hypothetically speaking, of course), these people won't abandon the land they own, but rather use it to find an alternative means of livelihood. A lot of this land would be available for cheap, since agriculture and animal husbandry dominantly happens in regions like suburbs or villages (more so in countries that dominate these sectors - India, Indonesia and China, for example). Some of this free land would be inevitably bought up by industrialists who might use it as factories. Also, we would need to dedicate a lot more land to systematic agriculture to make sure that the world's growing population is continuously fed. This would need infrastructure (mainly in terms of water and electricity that drives the water), which a lot of agricultural countries lack in. This would lead to food shortages of a scale we are not used to in this century with a billion more people entering the malnourished list in these countries, and we would witness food prices hit the roof in most countries that do not produce the goods. A lot of people living in cold regions across the world which are dependent mostly on trade for their food would perhaps verge on starvation. This is a quality video, but in my humble opinion, you should have accounted for the economic ramifications of such a move. We were hunters before we were gatherers and farmers, so we are not only genetically conditioned to eat meat (not saying we can't be vegetarians and survive), and our economy depends on us eating animals. Agree on the point that we would save a lot of fresh water, but we won't likely have use for that water if our population starves. Thanks again for the amazing content - just my two cents :)
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I went from omnivore to omnivore and it only took me my entire life.
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Vegan is the key... VEGAN not a lazy vegetarian
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eat cereal
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can the whole world become vegetarian? it's probably one of the best lifestyle choices i've ever made
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havnt eaten meat in two and a half years
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can we keep the agricultural animals as pets? I mean there are ornamental chickens. I'm also vegetarian not vegan. I'm so lucky to have a Pakistani family which mostly makes vegetarian food or vegan idk
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How about those starving people from all around the world, do they have time to be a vegetarian?
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This makes me hungry, I will go make myself a turkey sandwich.
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Go VEGAN. It's the best thing for the environment, your body, the worlds water, other humans and of course: THE ANIMALS.
They don't live for us, they live for themselves.
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