In “Is a no- meat world really better?” Marcelo Gleiser weighs the pros and cons of eating a strictly vegetarian diet. On one hand, it “ reduces the suffering of animals” (Gleiser 1) and has economic and environmental benefits. There would be “less demand for fresh water, less use of pesticides and antibiotics, more grains for people and less emission of greenhouse gases” (Gleiser 2). On the contrary, less meat eating would mean the “need to eat more plants (Gleiser 2) which would also have environmental impacts. Gleiser concludes that eating less meat is “good morally and environmentally, but no meat may not be as good as some may think” (Gleiser 3) especially considering the role culture and geography play.

I agree with Gleiser that culture