What If Everyone Becomes Vegetarian In this World!
They started by looking at climate change. One-quarter to one-third of all co2 emissions globally are attributed to the production of food, with the cattle sector bearing the lion's share of the blame. Despite this, the impact of our eating habits on climate change is frequently overlooked. For instance, a typical family of four in the US produces more greenhouse gases due to their consumption of meat, which is frequently brought up in conversations about global warming.
Tim Benton, a food security specialist at the University of Leeds, claims that "the majority of people don't think of the significance of food on climate change." But even a little reduction in meat consumption might significantly improve conditions for our children and grandchildren.
What would occur if by 2050 everyone adopted a vegetarian diet?. According to the findings, food-related emissions would decrease by around 60% as a result of eliminating red meat. Instead, if everyone became vegan, emissions would fall by about 70%.
"We found that you could only stabilise the ratio of food-related emissions to all emissions if everyone adopted a plant-based diet," Springmann adds. "When looking at what would be in accordance with avoiding hazardous levels of climate change." "That scenario is not very likely, but it emphasises the significance of emissions related to food in the future."
Food, especially cattle, takes up a lot of space and is a source of biodiversity loss, greenhouse gas emissions, and land conversion. Around five billion hectares (12 billion acres) of agricultural land are used for cattle worldwide.
If everyone became a vegetarian, we should ideally devote at least 80% of that pastureland to the restoration of grasslands and woodlands, which would help slow down climate change by capturing carbon. Former pastures might be turned into natural habitats, which would certainly benefit biodiversity as well as huge herbivores like buffalo that were driven out by cattle and predators like wolves that are sometimes killed in reprisal for attacking livestock.
To make up for any gaps in the food supply, the remaining 10 to 20 percent of the previous pastureland may be used to grow more crops. Because one-third of the area currently utilised for crops is devoted to providing food for livestock—rather than for humans—rather than for humans, this relatively little increase in agricultural land would more than make up for the loss of meat.
If everyone becomes vegetarian by 2050, coronary heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and several malignancies would decline, resulting in a 6–10% decrease in global mortality. Half of that drop is attributable to eliminating red meat, with the remaining advantages coming from reducing calorie intake and boosting fruit and vegetable consumption. These advantages would be amplified further by a global vegan diet: while vegetarianism would prevent roughly 7 million deaths annually, veganism would prevent up to 8 million. A reduction in the number of persons with chronic food-related disorders would also result in lower medical costs, saving around 2% to 3% of the world's GDP.
In the end Veganism has more benefits than Non Veg for your Health and as well as for our Global Warming