What would happen if everyone stopped eating meat tomorrow? - Carolyn Beans

i would like to see a TED-ED on What would happen if everyone stopped believing and practicing religion.

Do another video of what happens if everyone just cut down on the amount of meat they eat by like 50%. Or even less, even cut by 25%. Because many people will say "I couldn't give it up forever" ( even in the comments here, many are saying it) but they don't realize that even cutting down would make a huge difference if large numbers of people did it. Millions of people going meatless one day a week would improve the environment more than a small number of people being perfect vegans all the time.

This topic literally appeared in my passage 2 IELTS test 💀

Dear TED-ED team, can you include your sources please? Thanks

The content is a little too biased, focusing on the meat problems, but not in the plant based system problematic. But the idea behind is really good and others scenarios could even bring more interesting reflections around the topic!

As a vegan, I think someone named Carolyn Beans would predisposed to support a plant-based diet 😂

Now make an episode about what would happen if rich people stopped using their private jets to go shopping.

I think what really isnt an advantage of a worldwide vegetarian diet is the loss of food culture in many countries and the lack of vegetable production in some regions. Privileged rich people in developed countries could switch to vegetarianism anytime they want, but people who dont have the ability to get vegetables as easy as them wouldnt be able to and it would clearly make a negative impact to problems of food supply and hunger.

While I think the general idea may be correct, I feel like this is a more complex issue that can’t be comprehensively covered in a 5 minute video, which leads to generalizations and oversimplifications that are incorrect.

I think it’s incredibly optimistic to think that a lot of the land used for meat production could be used for farming in the same efficiency. I also suspect those farmers who breed house and care for animals could possibly become destitute given the demand and price decrease of crops. I know it’s a thought experiment and eating less meat is a good idea in many cases, but this ignores a salient fact: 12% of Americans account for 50% of beef consumption. Have the actual externalities of meat production paid for by the producers and therefore consumers and the problem gets much easier to solve.

vitamine B12 is only found in Animals and fongus. So we also would need to consume a lot more mushrooms or yeast.

I've cut down on some meat consumption personally, but chiefly anything related to cow meat. When I do have it, I consider it the rare treat. Small changes (in mindset) go a long way.

Coming from a mainly vegetarian country that is India, most of our population suffers from protein, iron and vitamin B12 deficiency. Large scale corporations polluting the environment and using unethical means to attain capital should be held accountable, instead of guilt shaming people who eat meat.

Okay off topic kind of would the peanut (or nut) allergy rate go up or down? With more possible biodiversity and kids going outside or the demand that nuts replace proteins.

It’s a complicated topic. Not all foods are produced with equal cost of water, fuel, labor, time, and pesticides. Not all foods produced humanely. Human trafficking (kidnapped slaves to farm), child labor, destruction of environment (not just fishing or live stock, vegetables farms destroy environment too), animal abuse ( method of production can be very disturbing- check Foie gras). Nothing is perfect.

I would love this video but with more hypotheticals about the negatives that comes with this scenario: Would corporates mass plant some greens, leading to sickness and mass death of insects? Would grass-eating animals be hunted down the same way wolves and cheetahs are now? Those types of inquiries.

"So over thousands of years..." Bold of you to assume humanity won't go extinct by then.

Do one like “what happens if billion dollar corporations disappeared”

it will be great if you make a video on recycling of cloths. most of us don't even know that how throwing away multiple clothes on land fills leads to increase of methane. so recycling started but still the issue was not much better as expected. it has its merits and demerits. we'd love to see all this related content together in an another informative video.

A slightly different version I would be curious about is what would happen if people stopped eating/using livestock, but the animals were still there. While some livestock are capable of living in the wild, others would not be. If humans stopped having a need for them, would we gradually just let them go extinct?