going vegetarian

How Does Being Vegetarian Help The Environment?

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How Does Being Vegetarian Help The Environment? Being vegetarian helps reduce pollution of our streams, rivers, and oceans. Pollution from livestock production largely comes from animal waste, which can runoff into our waterways and harm aquatic ecosystems, destroy topsoil, and contaminate the air – which all have harmful effects on wild animals AND humans. Is

Do Vegetarians Have A Lower Carbon Footprint?

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Do Vegetarians Have A Lower Carbon Footprint? Do vegetarians have a lower carbon footprint? A systematic peer-review of studies of going vegetarian shows that a non-meat diet will likely reduce an individual’s emissions by the equivalent of nearly 1,200 lbs carbon dioxide. For the average person in the industrialized world, that means an emissions cut