I think choosing to walk or ride your bike one day out of the week is probably a viable (maybe even more effective?) alternative.
That's the funny thing -- the meat industry causes more greenhouse gases than any other industry.
It's funny how you think simply not eating meat saves animals, especially when there is beef tallow in tar, plastics, and other stuff around you that you see and use every day.
So what you're saying is not eating meat DOESN'T save animals, because there are animals that would be dead anyways?
Do you also believe that if somebody stops spending money on alcohol and tobacco, but keeps on buying the same amount of food, they are spending just as much money?
In any case, this article has *nothing* to do with being a vegetarian or saving animals, as people in this thread seem to keep talking about. It has to do with
moderation, something we in the western world have serious problems with.