The World Should Embrace a Vegetarian Diet to Combat Global Warming

Essay
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Title: The world should change to a vegetarian diet to solve the
global warming crisis
Climate change is not a localised problem but it is a global crisis and is one of the greatest
challenges for the human beings. As given in the Climate Change 2014 report of the United
Nations, climate change is affecting every living being on this planet. It has affected human
health, agriculture, water bodies, livelihoods, and ecosystems. Everyone is trying to combat
this crisis by promoting fuel-efficient cars and green technology, but the harsh truth is these
tactics are not enough as one has to take other crucial measures like going vegan and stop
consuming eggs, meat, and dairy products. Though the aforementioned facts are criticised by
many researchers, PETA’s views support that humans should avoid eating animals. This is
due to the fact that, killing animals and then processing, storing, transporting their flesh is
highly energy-consuming. This essay reflects an argument of whether one should consume
meat or not.
According to Marco Springmann, a research scholar at Oxford Martin School's Future of
Food programme, the eliminating the red meat from the human diets can reduce the gas
emission caused by cooking up to 60%. And, if people completely transformed into vegan,
then this would reduce the emission by up to 70%. Consuming a bit less meat today can make
things a lot better for our future generation. On the other hand, the opponent research carried
out by Cranfield University, commissioned by WWF, found that switching to the vegetarian
diets can cause a profound food shortage in the country. And, to curb that shortage, a nation
has to import food from other countries (Pachauri, et.al, 2015). The transportation process
would also increase the emission. However, this research failed in providing the facts and
figures. Despite the fact, not many arguments to support this research were given. More
importantly, even if the emission increases due to transportation, but this won’t be as large as
what cooking the red meat emits across the globe. Many types of research have mentioned in
conclusion that cooking meat is the significant contributor to global warming. Human beings
do not understand the consequences of cooking food on climate change. Consuming a little
less red meat can significantly change the world of the future generations. Food-related
emissions play a crucial role in the rising level of global warming (Benton, 1990).
In one of the studies on climate change by Oxford University, shows that non-vegetarians
emit about 2.5 time more CO2 than the normal vegetarian. It was also determined that
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