Vegetarianism Could Save the Planet: A Discussion

Running head: RESEARCH ESSAY
Vegetarianism Could Save the Planet: A Discussion
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Topic: Vegetarianism Could Save the Planet: A Discussion
Background: Vegetarianism has become a trend for the environmentalists in the modern world.
Vegetarianism refers to the practice of abstaining from the practice of consuming meat, fish,
seafood and eggs and following a plant based diet ().As the global warming is on the rise causing
significant damages, some of environmentalists have shown that the animals are also
contributing in this. Hence, reducing the non-vegetarian diet can lessen the impact to some
extent. Thus, a discussion will be conducted in this paper highlight the positive and negative
aspects of vegetarianism and its impact on the environment, that is, whether vegetarianism can
help save the planet or not.
Outline of Issue: Impact of vegetarianism in saving the planet from environmental damages
caused by the livestock farming for meat production
Counter-position + 3 Reasons
Counter Position: Vegetarianism cannot save the planet
Reason 1: It does not have much impact on the global warming
Reason 2: Livestock does not eat away much land in comparison to urbanization
Reason 3: Farming livestock reduces wastes and residues and reduced environmental pollution

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Refuting statement and your position: Vegetarianism can save the planet by reducing the
overheating through GHG emissions by the livestock, providing more crops to the people by
increasing the size of agricultural land and protecting the environment by reducing soil erosion
with increased plantation.
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Main position & controlling idea (reason): Transportation, energy sector, industries, forestry,
agriculture and livestock, natural events, such as, volcanic eruptions, residential and commercial
building and wastes are the sources that emit the harmful GHG and cause global warming, and
livestock contributes only a small portion in this.
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Body Paragraph 2: Refutation
Refuting statement & controlling idea (reason): Livestock emit more amount of harmful
methane gas, which causes more damage to the environment than the amount of CO2 emitted by
the transport sector.
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