Comments on: What Would Happen If Americans Changed Their Diet To Vegetarianism?

By: billyjoe

billyjoe — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:00:56 +0000

We would become weaker in strength and unable to lift heavy items, our bones would be easy to brake. honestly it ANT gonna happen. People in the U.S. like meat as do I. Raised on it, eat it, want and it’s healthy for you. your body needs it. Butchered many a deer, hog and beef in my long life…that’s why most Americans are stronger than other people around the world outside maybe the Sweeds or Germans. And Oprah is the last person I wanna listen too. ROCK ON Cattleman’s Association!!!!! YEAH! I eat the red meat the other white meat. Bears, elk, snake, alligator, frog, and fowl, and Coons. And Yes by God Ted Nugent is a hunter too. Rock on baby….Oh and BTW…My grand mother is still living at 109.5 eating the grease and pork and beef every day! At least I know what my Cattle are eating and being treated with. She also drinks nothing but Mt.Dew too. At 109 she still tough…never broke an arm or anything all her life…nor have I.

By: LM

LM — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:19:01 +0000

here would not be enough vegetables to sustain everyone, first off, nor would there be enough to last for the time between tomorrow and in a few months when the now large number of farmers collect their first massive harvest, so there would likely be food riots and deaths unless the government took over all food distribution and rationed everything out to people.
What would we do with the hundreds of thousands of live animals? They are domesticated, if they are let free they will become fodder for other preying animals like wolves, potentially increasing their numbers or violent tendencies during subsequent years due to an abundance of nutrition. What would all the farmers do, start farming vegetables? Not all farmers know or want to do that. This also requires much more land, which needs to be prepared, etc. If America suddenly went vegetarian, I would expect them to invade Canada or Mexico for its suitable growing land.
Vegetarian also stands to be defined here. Does this mean no meat derivative products? There are a lot of those in many things, even jello is animal hooves. I would think it would be more likely that people would go vegan instead of vegetarian, to totally cut animal consumption from their lives versus just not eating meat and continuing to raise and use animals. So now the leather industry is affected, amongst all others who use animals for byproducts. No more horse glue, non-artificial paintbrushes, etc.
I am of course interested in how everyone just suddenly becomes a vegetarian, as the method for this could result in a lot of different behaviours. For instance, if it was a government forced policy and people didn’t want to become vegetarians, there would be riots, looting, huge numbers of people leaving the country, maybe even escalating levels of violence depending on how these events were treated. In the same thought, if it were forced on people, there would be resistance groups, underground meat smuggling, and a world of people who don’t like being oppressed.
I think the secondary effects from this happening are quite large as well. People leaving the country for other less dictatorial countries means a lot of quitting people from all areas. People simply needing to become veggie farmers to keep up with the demand would have a similar effect. Perhaps the number of job opportunities would lower unemployment, but I think the massive number of people leaving (if they were allowed to leave, that is) would be substantial enough to cause a bump.
Edit: I just can’t see the entire world doing this. We already deal with starvation issues now when we do eat meat, we’d be dealing with way more if only America went vegetarian, let alone the entire world. Plus it’s a huge deprivation of freedom, and this cannot be ignored, I can’t see how every country would be persuaded to do this…

By: Rick L.

Rick L. — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:02:10 +0000

we wouldn’t weigh the earth down anymore

By: Gale

Gale — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:28:36 +0000

hell would freeze over

By: Hugh

Hugh — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:53:47 +0000

you would have saved 5 points

By: bob s

bob s — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:48:08 +0000

MCFO your an idiot. Why would the South die?

By: Khamirul Bin Mataree

Khamirul Bin Mataree — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:54:11 +0000

They will become healtier than they now

By: Grizzly Adams

Grizzly Adams — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:20:29 +0000

There’d be a lot more Canadians and Mexicans

By: sunshine

sunshine — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:56:23 +0000

The doctors would might end up on the unemployment line because everybody would be so healthy.HMMMM! Nice thought.

By: ?????)?

?????)? — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:55:34 +0000

Lol we should bring this idea to the UK. We’re getting there too.
LOL at the second answer lol. Imagine fried broccoli.