Vegetarian Case

In the article Vegetarian Is the New Prius, Kathy Freston claims that abstaining from meat is friendly to the environment. “Raising animals for food is a primary cause of land degradation, air pollution, water shortage, water pollution, loss of biodiversity, and not least at all, global warming.” She explains in her article. However, this is just a one-sided opinion: eating meat has more benefits than eating vegetables only.

The article “ Vegetarian Is the New Prius”, written by Kathy Freston. In this article, authour explains that due to the serious environmental problems, and global warming has been a very pressing matter in these few years, people stopped eating meat and only ate vegetarian food, and then those problems would be solved. She emphasizes this idea using a report published by the United Nations which shows that farmed more animals cause of slashing and burning the world’s forests. Today animal agriculture takes up 70% of all agricultural land, and 30% of the total land surface of the planet. Animals' secrete gasses including methane, nitrogen and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere through farts and the gasses get trapped and heat up the earth. Eating animals, people burns more fossil fuels to produce meat protein than eating vegetables. If everyone eat vegetables instead of eatng animal product, it will reduce the global warming, and improve environmental pollution.

Everyone is looking for a cure, for a fix to mend our quickly deteriorating world. In the following few paragraphs we will discuss the comparison between a couple articles discussing just that; a mend to our decaying world. The first article titled Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It delves into the idea of tab water vs. bottle water. Elizabeth Royte compares and contrasts the benefits of both sides of the argument. She talks about the surprising negative aspects of bottled water which begs the question, "Is bottled water truly