What would the world be like if everyone was vegetarian? Vegetarianism is a way of life in which a person does not consume meat and avoids products of animal origin, such as leather and fur. The reasons for it can be ethical, health, religious, economic or philosophical. Did you know that if all people became vegetarians, 8 million fewer people would die by 2050?
Despite the fact that vegetarianism has been talked about a lot in recent years, vegetarians represented a relatively small proportion of the world's population. That is exactly why they are at AsapSCIENCE played with the idea of what the world would be like if all people were vegetarians.
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If everyone in the world were vegetarian, an incredible amount of space would be freed up, as there would no longer be a need to breed billions of pigs, chickens, cows and other animals. They calculated that they would have extra available 33 million square kilometers, which are now dedicated to grazing, which is the size of Africa. And this does not even take into account how much additional land would be freed up if we stopped growing food specifically for fodder. Then there they are greenhouse gases, caused by agriculture. Their quantity would drop drastically. Listen to this and other interesting facts in the educational video.