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CassandraCroft posted...

Look at all the extra farmland that would be needed if everybody ditched meat and went Vegetarian/Vegan.
Look at how much more water would be need to irragate those new fields. Much more than the meat industry could ever use.

There's a lot wrong in your post but let's start going through it all. The first being that it takes around 7-8 years of feeding crops to a cow to slaughter it for enough steaks to feed like a couple dozen people for one day. If everyone went vegetarian, we'd use much less land and irrigation and not more.

CassandraCroft posted...

Look at how much more pesticides and fertilizers would be needed to keep these crops free from pests. Pesticides and fertilizers that would pollute the air and get into the water table.
Look at how much more pollutants are being pumped into the atmosphere by all the extra tractors and Combine Harvesters that would be needed on those new fields.
Look at all the extra Diesel pollutants being pumped into the atmosphere by the extra trucks needed to deliver all those fruit and veg to the factories or shops.

The meat industry is the second biggest climate pollution contributor after coal. It's literally worse than oil.

CassandraCroft posted...

Have you ever seen a process salad being made? Look at how much water is being used by those factories to clean and chop those friuts and veg and it will be even more if everyone was vegetarian or Vegan.
Look at how much plastic is used in the friut and vegetable industry to package those processed salads. I have even seen indivudual friuits wrapped in plastic. Think about how much more would be used if we were all Vegetarian/Vegan.

Thousands of gallons of water again used over years for cows to drink and wash the fields out of shit far more wasteful than produce. Additionally, lots of produce can be sold without packaging, but meat can never be sold without it, so you will once again still use less plastic if everyone went vegetarian.