Going vegan can cut an individuals carbon footprint in half! And all you have to do is simply eat delicious and healthy vegan food. That's it, there's no modifying your house or buying an expensive new car, all you have to do is eat good food. A lot of people like to tout they’re cutting back on their meat consumption (only to replace meat with cheese- and egg-based dishes, greatly negating the effort), and people love Meatless Mondays because they can talk about how they’re making a difference one day a week, so there's obviously an awareness out there of environmental impact of animal agriculture. But if we lived in a world where all our energy could be generated from wind, solar, and waves, how would you feel if almost everyone decided they were going to run a gas-guzzling generator anyway – but only six days a week – to power their house while you used the emissions-free energy sources all seven days?

Wouldn’t you be mad at them, since there is so much more they could be doing? What would you say to them to get them to switch? Maybe they don’t want to switch because they’re so used to gas/coal power or maybe they feel that wind power doesn’t give them the same amperage as fossil fuel power. How quickly would you show them the facts; that there’s no difference between the wind/solar energy and the energy generated from coal?

Do you not change because you feel the “science isn’t settled?" Because if you feel that way, you’re coming across just like a climate change denier who doesn’t feel like the science on human-induced climate change is settled. Do you say that because every report on climate change and animal agriculture comes up with different numbers? There's no denying they do, but when differing methods all come to the same conclusions, it's further proof that those hypotheses are true, not false!

What research have you read or done to convince yourself that animal agriculture isn’t a major driver of greenhouse gas emissions? I guess those articles written by farmers and large animal agriculture conglomerates proclaiming #NotAllMeat really have you convinced. I’m sure those people, unlike the big oil companies saying they don't cause climate change, are writing those article because they care so much about getting the science right, not because they have a financial stake in keeping people unaware of the damage they're doing to the earth every time the sit down to a meal with animal products on their plate. How much data do you need to be convinced that animal agriculture is bad for the environment from a greenhouse gas emissions standpoint? If you need more data, you can wait for the inevitable to happen and get more data on the issue, or you can make the switch to veganism and start helping the environment now. The best part is, we have no nutritional requirement for any animal-derived food at all!

If you could switch your house over to all solar/wind generated power at zero net cost to you, how quickly would you switch? If suddenly electric cars got 400 miles per charge and cost the same as a gas powered car, how quickly would you be at the car dealership making a trade in?