Is vegan green dining?

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So is being a vegan or vegetarian qualify as green dining? Or is this too literal?

I think that at the moment we overeat on meat causing overfarming, deforestation, etc. However, if the whole world suddenly would give up eating animals, we would equally create an imbalance. The key is, as usual, BALANCE. Me for instance, I eat meat or fish only 2 or 3 times per week. Afterwards, I don't even feel like it anymore. If everybody started to put a few vegan or vegi days into his diatary plan, we would already achieve a lot.

Well are you saying that being vegan or vegetarian is green dining not just because you're eating green leafy vegetables?

I was more thinking of the environmental impact of vegan and vegitarian dining. I think that at the moment people need to restrict their consumption of meat and fish because too much meet is produced and we are emptying our oceans. Somewhere there is the right balance. Many people eat meat every day and I think that is wrong and immoral.

Originally Posted by tecshift

I was more thinking of the environmental impact of vegan and vegitarian dining. I think that at the moment people need to restrict their consumption of meat and fish because too much meet is produced and we are emptying our oceans. Somewhere there is the right balance. Many people eat meat every day and I think that is wrong and immoral.

I agree with Tecshift. And look what too much meat and all that has brought America. Too much obesity cases.

Eating as a vegetarian doesn't make you "green" friendly, i think there is alot more involved than just what you eat. You have to think about how the food gets there, how its processed and other factors. I would say listen to your body and make yourself happy with what you eat.

Farmed animals produce more greenhouse gas emissions (18%) than the world’s entire transport system including avitation (13.5%).

Thirty percent of the earth’s entire land surface – a massive 70% of all agricultural land – is used for rearing farmed animals. (ref: The Vegetarian Society).

If we are concerned about how much we drive and fly, we should DEFINITELY be concerned about how much meat/dairy we eat. Veganism is definitely a green lifestyle choice; it also ethical for a number of other reasons (animal welfare/the third world, to name two).

If you're interested, I've written an article on this subject which you can find here: Good Living: The truth about dairy