A vegetarian is a person who does not eat meat. One major reason to do is is to reduce the amount of land use for cattle production. Another reason is to reduce the suffering of animals.
Some part time vegetarians have greatly cut back their meat consumption, and often use organically raised meats only.
Some vegetarians sometimes do not use animal products such as leather, fur, wool, or glutens.
one vegetarian could annually save 360 pounds of CO2 a year, a 45/4 cubic meter lake, 1,125/16 cubic meters of rain, 450 pounds of air pollution per year, 249,750,000/17 btu's of energy, 45/2 pounds of particulates each year, 3,388/15 decibels of sound intensity, 30 pounds of ozone each year, 8,325/10,982 tons of NH3 13/135 tons of dust each year, 999/1,292 tons of methanol, 7,353/880 metric tons of coal, 19,608 square meters of natural habitat potential, 817/100 metric tons of fossil fuels, 817/200 metric tons of carbon monoxide, 817 kilograms of nitrogen oxide, 13,889/20,000 metric tons of solid particles, 61,275/1,012 tons of steam, 7,353/125 metric tons of life, 2,451/191 metric tons of ethanol, 4,085/23 tons of soda ash, 735,300/407 square meters of biomass, 12,500/447 tons of waste, 6,000/229 gallons of oil, 24,000/229 acres of soil from being polluted, 12/365 pounds of CFC, 249,750/2,363 gallons of diesel fuel, $450.00, gain almost 1,950 pounds of O per year
Variations[]
- Vegan
- Lacto-vegetarian
- Ovo-vegetarian