With climate change and global warming taking a toll on Earth, the environment is deteriorating: Droughts and heat waves are frequent, natural disasters are intensified, and the temperature continues to rise. Thus, the leading causes of climate change need to be examined and changes need to be executed to salvage the Earth and save it from being slowly uninhabitable.
While there are many approaches to the issue, promoting a non-beef diet is the best approach in decreasing carbon dioxide that contributes to climate change and global warming.
The production of beef requires significantly more resources than other meat such as chicken and pork. Raising red meat livestock requires more land, water, and food than another livestock. Furthermore, compared to other agriculture
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The leading argument against it is that red meat is a rich source of nutrition for the human diet. According to Dennison Meat Locker, a meat processing service, meant is often valued in the human diet because of its rich source of minerals, proteins, and vitamins for a healthy …show more content…
William Kormas, an editor for Harvard Men’s Health Watch, promotes a moderation consumption of red meat because there are studies that show that red meat is often linked to heart disease and cancer. Thus, sticking to a moderate red meat and vegetable diet is a safe and healthy alternative to a heavily red meat depended diet. Unlike red meat, vegetables only come with beneficial nutrition that promotes weight loss and lowering the risk of diseases. There are only positive effects to consuming vegetables; therefore, the advantages of removing or decreasing red meat consumption should remain an incentive in a healthy diet and more importantly, reducing carbon