How Being Vegetarian Does More Harm To The Environment Than Eating Meat

According to researchers in UK, more arable land is needed for producing tofu than for producing beef and milk, what consequently can cause a deforestation, because it is the easiest way to get more land for agricultural usage (Macrae, “How Being Vegetarian Does More Harm to the Environment Than Eating Meat”). Deforestation is the removal of a forest or stand of trees, where the land is thereafter converted to a non-forest use. It is very harmful for the environment because all plants on earth are producing oxygen and their extinction has a huge impact on the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere, which is already been damaged by human actions. Deforestation in its turn will be followed by global warming, which is the rise in the average temperature of the Earth’s climate system. It leads to such things as melting of glaciers and to a

Costs of vegetable production are much higher than costs of production of meats. That is logical, that owners of plant farms lose more money, than animal producers. And if it is a “state-run company“ it directly harms the whole country’s economy. Also plants take much more amount of land, because plants need more free space to grow properly with all those garden beds and empty spaces for proper growing . And outcome amount of “green“ products from the area is smaller than amount of meat from the same area, including the cheaper price of meat production. According to a table in Jayson L. Lusk’s and F. Bailey Norwood’s book “Some Economic Benefits and Costs of Vegetarianism” we can say that production of crops is more expensive than production of livestock, poultry and milk. For example, production of acre of corn costs $387.03 and production of hogs costs $50.53 per live weight gain (Lusk and Norwood, “Some Economic Benefits and Costs of Vegetarianism”). This particular example shows that meat production is more than seven times cheaper than production of