Would going vegetarian help combat climate change?

I think becoming vegetarians will not help combat climate change, I think it is kind of funny that this was suggested. There are a million other things that are harming the environment. How about we close down all of the factories and restaurants that use up natural resources and cause pollution with their smoke? How about we go to electric cars and not use anything that uses gasoline and oil? What about those schools we send our kids to? We could close all of them down, too since they heat in the winter and use a lot of electricity and not to mention the fuel it takes to get kids there and home? It would take a very long time to make changes like this and it's probably impossible. I wouldn't become a vegetarian, I wouldn't change my vehicle for one that wouldn't make it through the snow or go the mileage that I need it to go, my kids need an education and I like going out to dinner and I need products that are made in the factories. Unless we go back to horses and buggies (like the Amish) there is really no way of getting to the point of correcting global warming without many years of changes. Picking on farmers of livestock is just a way of someone trying to impose their belief that being a vegetarian is the way that it should be onto everyone else and is one of the most ridiculous things I've heard.

It is an interesting suggestion, but I don't really think that this would work. I think that the best thing that we would be able to do to combat global warming is to quit depending on fossil fuels. Over and above everything that humans do to damage the environment, I think that this is the worst thing that we are doing is driving cars on a regular basis because they are releasing so much carbon into the environment.

No. Its people who cause climate changes. As for not eating meat and the animals would get to live boy are you wrong. If people stopped eating meat millions and millions of animals would die. Farmer are not going to keep sheep or cows or any food animal alive if they don't bring in money. Chickens would all be killed except for the ones used for eggs. Cows would be allowed to live as long as they give milk but not after. And what happens if there is a world wide drought? How long do you think it will be before people become cannibals? Far fetched? Well just think about it.