Go vegetarian to reduce green house gases?

[NancysGarden]

Listening to home planet earlier: livestock and their methane is the new blight on our atmosphere. They spoke about the type of breed of livestock and the different amounts of methane they produce. Is it me or shouldn't the transportation of the grain they are eating come into the equation too? (I am a vegetarian, shamelessly jumping on the bandwagon btw)

It's not just the methane and the transportation energy. Meat production is also very input-heavy, and is contributing to deforestation in areas like the Amazon.

You need to go vegan as dairy cows still produce methane. But then they are cutting down the rainforest to grow soya.

oh god - didn't think of that.

And you can't have soya either???

There used to be an experimental farm down here that used to trap the methane gases that pigs emitted and turn it into energy, the problem then comes that they are not freerange pigs so inhumanely treated.

I was going to ask how on earth they might do that without bothering the pigs...

I accept that pretty much everything we do has an impact: it's now becoming even harder to find the least damaging way to do things. I won't be starting on meat after 13 years of abstinence but chopping down rainforest for soya too?