Vegetarianism: The Cure for Global Warming?

That’s the contention of British physicist Alan Calvert. Writing recently in the journal Physics World, Calvert claims that the animals we eat are responsible for 21% of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions. Calvert claims that there would be no adverse health effects associated with stripping meat from our diets, and if global vegetarianism proved unworkable, it could be abandoned at any time. All in all, it certainly seems like an “easier” fix to the problem of global warming than some of the oil-addicted marginalized alternatives. "Worldwide reduction of meat production in the pursuit of the targets set in the Kyoto treaty seems to carry fewer political unknowns than cutting our consumption of fossil fuels," Calvert says.

Expect something in the neighborhood of cataclysmic lobbying efforts from McDonalds, Burger King and Wendy’s if this idea starts to gain traction.