Comment Re:Are we comparing apples to apples? (Score 2) 252
The house is burning down, and you are talking about the furniture... Using the current EPA figures agriculture accounts for 10% of total greenhouse emissions, and that's all cows, sheep, etc. in the US. Transportation is #1 (by a small margin). So you can make a much larger impact on greenhouse emissions by buying local. Eating 100% less meat impacts my footprint by 10% at best, but buying all my produce at the farmer's market nets me a 29% return.
Switching all my lights to high-efficiency LED bulbs knocks a big chunk out of my 25% electricity footprint, forever. There are many good choices to reduce or offset our footprint, but focusing on veganism as the only solution is missing 90% of the problem.
Source: https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissio...