I don’t completely agree with this theory, though I myself am a vegetarian. We have to say that organic animal products are made without harming the environment much, but removing all livestock from the market will not make the planet greener and stop a phenomenon as big as GLOBAL WARMING. There are many possible ways to raise animals without harming the environment and people have been practicing those for thousands of years before the time commercial farming came into being.

Excessive meat consumption may lead to global warming but there are so many causes for the environmental degradation. Piecemeal analysis such as the study by the United Nations pointing an accusing finger for the increased global warming towards the meat consumption on a massive scale may lead us nowhere. In a Buddhist feeble four blind men gave altogether different versions of an elephant.

View - Going vegetarian would help curbing global warming – sounds a bit lop-sided. If every one of us turns out to be a vegetarian then the pressure it would create on vegetation could easily be assessed. It would one way or the other add to the vulnerability of vegetation, which is already bearing the blows of so-called current of modernization. Moreover, the dependence on vegetation would be more intense than it is now due to livestock. So, better, let livestock have this vegetation (but in limit only) and those fond of meat let them have the livestock.

Theories and statistics apart, i have a simple dilemma. If eating meat can lead to global warming, then wouldn’t the earth turn into an oven even before the T-rex had a chance to walk on it?

This is sham! There is absolutely no connection between eating meat and global warming. I am bemused by the fact that such theories are actually taken seriously.

Now, something serious. Is climate change and global warming a man-made phenomenon? There is a school of thought that says that humankind’s relentless attack on nature by the way of greenhouse emissions, deforestations (and eating huge volumes of meat for the matter and/or sake of argument) has contributed little towards climate change and global warming. It is a well known fact that drastic climate changes haev taken place on the earth even before humans walked upon this planet obliterating a majority of then existing species and giving birth to new species.

Ice ages were followed by the great thaws and eating meat and industrial carbon emissions had nothing to do with it.

The meat-global warming relation theory is just one of the many that is finding some currency within the motley crew of vegetarianists around the world.