NO! If you become a vegetarian you actually help stop global warming.
Raising beef, pigs, sheep, chicken, and eggs is very, very energy intensive. More than half of all the grains grown in America go to feed animals, not people, says the World Resources Institute. Mike Tidwell, a writer for Audubon Magazine said "That means a huge fraction of the petroleum-based herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers applied to grains, plus the staggering percentages of all agricultural land and water use, are put in the service of livestock."
Stop eating animals and you dramatically lessen the use of fossil fuels, as much as 250 gallons less oil per year for vegans (vegetations who omit all meat and meat products from their diet) and 160 gallons less for meat-and-cheese eating vegetarians. If you think becoming a vegetarian would too big of a commitment for you, but you want to help stop global warming then trying being a seasonal vegetarian or a locavore. Locavores try to limit their diet of meat when ever certain types of fruit and vegetables come into season. Locavores also eat regional fruits and vegetables. When the season ends the locavore goes back to his regular diet.
The amount of land, water and resources the animals use are only part of the problem. One major reason to cut down or your meat intake is the digestive process of ruminants or cows and sheep. Ruminants generate powerful green house gasses through their normal digestive process. The burping and flatulence of ruminants emits a great amount of methane which is 23 times more powerful at trapping heat then carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide which is 296 time more powerful.
Combining all the factors, livestock production is responsible or 18 percent of the world's total greenhouse gases reports the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization. That is more emissions than the world's cars, planes and trains COMBINED!
A:No global warming is caused by greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide) from cars, power plants and other factories which is melting the ice caps and causing storms and famines.
