Friday, June 26, 2020

is eating less meat better for the environment?

Floyd Labuda: I hunt and eat wild game, I fish and eat it. My mom is a pescatarian but doesn't look down on people who eat meat.I think it a personal interest and shouldn't be attacked by others if you eat meat.

Coleman Ocegueda: As you don't eat meat, I'm sure you don't care for hunting. I'm interested in knowing how it sits with you in comparison to eating farm-raised animals, though. Is it less cruel to hunt food than it is to raise neutered animals in pens that are fed processed foods?Bonus question: do you feel that catching fish in the wild for consumption is more ethical than farm raising fish?...Show more

George Dingeldein: Ever since I was little I've wanted to be a chef. But this past year, after watching the video 'Meet you Meat', I've changed my ways and I am now a vegetarian. The thing is I still want to be a chef. I think it is wrong to be one and cook meat, do you agree? Also, will it be hard to find a job as one?

Bo Perham: There are to! ns of places where you can apprentice to be a vegetarian or vegan chef. Which means that there are a lot of places that you can work in that field. I'd suggest that you do that rather than enrolling in a cooking school as you'll save money and as it is a specialized field. So you'll gain more from the time you put in and get paid!...

Nell Dipiero: unnecessary death regardless of purpose. You don't need to do any of this killing. Fishing is particularly cruel, as are bad shots (although I'd hope you don't have too many of those). i know there's a lot of talk about how you need to hunt deer to maintain their populations, then you need to hunt wolves and other apex predators to maintain their populations etc, but I'm going to go with it's bs. Humans through hunting especially in the last 70,000 years have caused the extinctions of so many animals. And what's it all for? You don't need to eat meat (you'd be so much better off if you did not), and nature manages population! s far better than we can. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases! /2014/06/14060...http://www.cracked.com/article_17504_6-species-wev... I think what you're doing is no better. You have access to food that's not animal-sourced. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animal-emotion...http://www.unleashed.org.au/animals/fish.phphttp://www.thenazareneway.com/vegetarian/fishing.h...Just as chimpanzees hunt and eat meat not for nourishment, but for social status as feasts, the evidence points towards similar for people. Throughout history it's been a symbol of dominance over others, gluttony and wealth, and the fact that it involved death was not lost upon people, and it was often eaten in Spring, to symbolise the death that winter brings and the rebirth Spring brings. It's just sheer gluttony....Show more

Agustina Stimmel: There are more and more cafes and restraunts that are vegetarian and vegan opening up all the time so if you want to be a vegetarian chef go for it. http://www.foodgod.com.au/1952http://www.animalliberationyouth.org/arti! cles/ctc_...http://www.yourrestaurants.com.au/guide/the_white_...http://www.eatability.com.au/au/melbourne/cuisines...http://www.vegetarianfood.com.au/restaurants_melbo...http://www.bestrestaurants.com.au/restaurants/VIC-...THese links are to vegetarian restraunts in Mebourne Australia and Kurma is a well known Australia Vegetarian chef http://www.findyoga.com.au/workshopDisplay.asp?Wor...Dubbed as 'Australia's Vegetarian Guru', Kurma Dasa has been writing cookbooks, teaching students around the world and hosting internationally broadcast TV shows for over thirty years. His books have sold over one million copies. Kurma will be teaching his special brand of eclectic, gourmet vegetarian cuisine at Govindas on October 8th.(see below for details) Kurma Dasa was born in England, moving to Australia with his parents in 1964. He started his cooking career in the Sydney kitchens of the Krishna movement, where he began by cutting vegetables, grinding fresh herbs and spices, and ass! isting in the preparation of their famous Sunday Feasts. Follow your dr! eam and don't be put off vegearian chefs are breaking new ground all over the world. I disagree with David L in Melbourne there are 100's of vegetarian cafes and eating houses with Soul Mama in St. Kilda a real biggie. The owners recently won awards and they stated they wanted to open a restraunt where no animal would be killed. there are also lots of cooking schools pening to teach people to cook vegan and vegetarian food - its a big niche market http://www.nadineabensur.com/cookeryclasses.htmlAlso my friend who wanted a vegetarian chef was willing to pay double the hourly rate - there are a lot more restraunts now that are vegetarian and vegan and are wanting vegetarian/vegan cooks/chefs so dont be put off....Show more

Abel Adger: well i know they're made out of soy duh! i meant like how do they make it and does it have anything else in it and is can it make you break out?

Delmer Pectol: With all the answers, some of which nibbled around the edge, I'm surprise! d that nobody mentioned Starling, the physiologist best known for his law of the heart. Starling figured that, for every step up the food pyramid, there is about a 90% loss of energy. For example, 1000 lb of grass can support 100 lb of grasshoppers. They, in turn, can support 10 lb of insect-eating birds, which are enough to feed 1 lb of hawk. Looked at it another way, a certain acreage can grow wheat for you but it would take about 10 times as much to grow enough to make the equivalent amount of an animal protein for you to eat. Therefore, vegans generally require 1/10 the land that pure carnivores do. Don't worry about getting your protein from plants. If you mix both grains and legumes, you will get the amino acids you need....Show more

Alisa Kaleiwahea: Vegan-ism is better for the environment. The meat industry is responsible for one-fifth of the damage that is being caused by global warming. Rainforests are being cut down in order to house cows being bred for sla! ughter.Not to mention, the amount of grains we produce just to feed the! animals we are going to slaughter anyway would be enough so that nobody in the world would ever have to starve again. And nobody can use the argument that if we didn't eat them, the cows would multiply and we'd have a bigger problem. We are breeding them so we can eat them. If we stop breeding, there will be a lot fewer of them, and therefore, less pollution, less world hunger, less irresponsible and meaningless damage to our planet.Please, please, please read this (it's fairly short):http://www.alternet.org/environment/40639...Show more

Jules Ashbach: hm, i dont really know.. maybe SOY?

Shelley Stevens: Would be totes for it if all the animals were Denial (Daniel) clones.

Raymundo Kyser: There are cooking schools that are vegetarian, but there aren't many. I do see the ads in the back of vegetarian magazine.As for the job market for a vegetarian or vegan chef, I can't tell you about that. It would depend where you live and the options in that city. Th! e school you went to would likely know where the jobs were....Show more

Lawana Neemann: if you think it would be be good for the environment to not eat animals, than why did god make animals out of meat?

Sammy Hatzenbihler: Vegan, since the raising of animals for food is responsible for the creation of more greenhouse gases than all forms of transportation combined.http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=20772...Animal agriculture (including dairy and eggs) produces enormous amounts of toxins which pollute the water, air and soil.http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/factoryfarms...http://www.grist.org/article/parker1/...Show more

Becky Mosena: My guess would be soy.

Rosio Pasculli: None of the above.

Cletus Crotts: going vegetarian! less meat wont help at all!

Elvie Drumgoole: Ohh just because they don't eat it doesn't mean they can keep their opinions to themselves, thus I'm posting in a soon to be whine packed thread.

Christ! y Tirabassi: Vegan is the best for the environment, then vegetarian. If! you want to help the environment then eat as few animal products as you can (animal products including eggs and dairy). Eating beef impacts the environment worse than anything, so I know a few people who gave up beef but continue to be omnivores.

Felipa Nosis: y wuld it be

Clemente Schoeck: Possibly soy

Boris Hadsall: uh...soy

Phil Kuarez: of course!

Laveta Fathy: Vegetarian Starter KitPhysicians Committee for Responsible Medicinehttp://www.pcrm.org/health/veginfo/vsk/

Lorelei Lilburn: Soy milk and rennet (maybe vegetable, maybe animal), and maybe some coloring. Depending on the kind of cheese, there may also be salt and other additives. The ingredient part of the food label will tell you exactly what's in it.

Lanita Reichman: No it is not wrong to cook meat. When cooked right it is delicious. lolHaving said that unless you specificly work at a vegetarian restaurant (of which there will be few or none at all depending on where yo! u live.) it is going to be very hard to be a vegetarian and not asked to cook meat. No one will ask you to eat it but certainly cooking it is going to be part of the job description.The only thing I could think of would become a pastry Chef they don't cook meat.If you are Vegan just forget the whole thing. lolAs a side note you better think long and hard before becoming a Chef (being a vegetarian or not) because it is a very hard job both physically and mentally and the pay is very poor and you are on your feet for 10-12 hours a day and you always have to work nights (some times until late!) weekends and all holidays. This can really kill your social life. If you don't just love it and are willing to make very large sacrifices for your love of it then I would advise against it. In fact, I advise agaisnt it for most people. Just cook at home and enjoy it and do something less stressful that pays more money for work....Show more

Byron Fortmann: It may be, but any signif! icant amount. A lot of vegetarian rhetoric focuses on the greater land ! use needed for cattle farming compared to grain. But what they ignore, or simply don't know, is that cattle is raised on land that is not suitable for grain. Since cattle can eat grass or hay, they don't need rich soil, they can live just fine in places where the soil is too sandy or too rocky for a good grain crop.Some cattle is grain fed, at least just before slaughter, but that grain is generally low quality. The grain fed to cattle is an option, it's a luxury and could be done away with if the market would support that....Show more

Lanita Reichman: Soy and oil (canola or palm,usually).You'll also find casein (milk ingredient) in some of them as well as preservatives and salt.Cheese like Tofutti are LOADED in sodium, so be weary.There are also vegan cheeses made with large amounts of palm oil/canola oil.EDIT: Soy cheese does NOT contain enzymes, therefor they are always vegetarian. Enzymes are used in dairy cheeses, in the coagulation process. Like I said before, t! hat doesn't mean all soy cheeses are vegan but I'm not sure that's what you're concerned about....Show more

Raymon Fiene: Soy, I think.Probably other things too, so check the ingredients.

Norine Lomonte: Eating less meat isn't good for the environment or you because number one,your body needs its iron plus other nutrients that aren't found in pills and number two,even if you were to stop eating, thousands more will continue so the environment is still in harm's path. All said with respect. Luck to you and your choice.

Solomon Belback: sure, it could be no longer uncomplicated to appropriate cooking meat in case you ought to no longer style it. yet you ought to in all probability eyeball in spite of in case you had cooked it properly and in case you had somebody else style it for you then you definitely ought to appropriate your technique. Why no longer grow to be a vegetarian or vegan chef? pass to San Francisco, l. a., or long island and there are variou! s veggie eating places that serve connoisseur faire....Show more

! Boris Hadsall:

Von Houskeeper: soy

Gaylord Barragan: this raises so many issues.i don't think anyone who is a vegetarian or vegan would ever agree with hunting for sport. however, i do know that in some cases, hunting is necessary. eg deer in the uk. we (humans that is) killed all the wolves here in britain, and there is no other predator left now for the deer, so they need to be hunted to keep the population under control. i know this is necessary, it's not done because someone out there has bloodlust, it's done because otherwise, the entire ecosystem would be in chaos.hunting for sport, just to prove you are a "big shot" and "look at me, im so clever, i killed a lion" .. i really disagree with.fishing, the same. fishing just to catch a big fish for the fun of it.. i think is really cruel. you are putting the animal through so much stress just to have your bit of pleasure. fishing in order to eat? i understand. you tend to catch a lot more different fish than ! is commerically available, these species of fish are not endangered because, guess what? they're not commercially fashionable like cod, salmon and tuna. fish farming. i understand is necessary, but there are plenty of fish out there that taste like cod, but if its not cod it's not wanted. really they should ban fishing on some species for a while to let their populations grow again, before we have a situation like the anchovie in futurama.so many fish get wasted because they are caught in the net but arent what the fisherman are after (because they are deemed by our economy as worthless) its rather tragic. so fish farming is a solution. you keep the kind of fish you want in a certain place, so that (theoretically) no other fish gets wasted when you come to catching them.at the end of the day you're going to get a load of answers from angry non-meat eaters who are indignant and believe that no one on earth should eat animals.. but thats not a solution either, you cant force ! people to do something that they don't want to do. however massive cons! umption of meat is a huge environmental as well as ethical problem. think about all the land necessary to raise cattle, they need a lot of room to graze. not to mention all the methane they produce. anyway, back to hunting. if it is done for food, and not for fun, it doesn't bother me as much. the animal had a life, as opposed to the inside of a cage. im still not saying i agree with it and it is something i would choose to do. but i do know that if (as a lot of people think/want it to happen) the apocalypse arrives in some manner or form and modern society goes to pot. i know i'd go back to eating meat. i would have to, in order to survive. right now im vegetarian (and have been for 14 years) because i dont like the way animals are bred to die, and also the fact that meat is part of a now dead carcass really creeps me out. (which would be something i'd have to get over in the event of, i dunno, the end of the world haha :P)i hope i answered your question. i don't like crue! lty to animals, is the long and short of it. i understand that meat is necessary, even though i don't choose to eat it myself. and i believe that if you do choose to eat meat, you should source it as responsibly as you can....Show more

Roosevelt Pendill: I believe that human primates who hunt with guns or "trophy hunt" in general are cowards and bullies at their core. Hunting for food though is something that all animals do, in one way or another.

Houston Venezia: This link should answer your question. If you want to know more specifically what is in a particular brand, I suggest you read the ingredients. http://www40.pair.com/rstevens/soyfoodsdescription...

Nikita Schroepfer: All!

Charissa Bichsel: soya and lactic acid (non dairy)and preservatives you need to keep it from going off and stop in going runny*Lactic acid is what makes the soya milk, into curds and whey, it's made by an enzyme

Randa Hessell: U could work at as sald blace or u can ! become a vet

Sammy Kar: I don't condone hunting for any reason.Hu! nting for sport is just horrible, it's literally the only section of our society in which you're not considered a complete PSYCHO for murdering forest critters. And I can hardly find any "sport" in blowing away an animal with a highly advanced slug-throwing weapon. Calling it a "sport" implies that all participants are willing. Hunting for food is just dumb unless you have to do it. If you have access to a gun and ammunition, you probably have access to a marketplace where they sell fruits, veggies, beans, nuts, seeds, grains and processed food. I understand if some people HAVE to hunt for food, but that's not the case for the vast majority of people. It's no better than factory farms. It's killing and using an animal without needing to. Hunting for eco-preservation is archaic. We have sterilization methods that can keep animal populations down without us having to shoot them in the face. BQ: Nope, it's all killing. I think it's LESS cruel to have a farm that isn't overcrow! ded or to fish from a stream in the wild than factory farming as it is. But things are either ethical or unethical. Killing unless it's necessary is unethical. If I were in a situation where it was "Kill fish or die" then that would be totally acceptable....Show more

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