Don't Artichoke Breathe CO2 ?

So fertilizing and harvesting extra veggies and removing them as a carbon sink and transporting them and cooking them and, and, and is carbon neutral?

from Planet Save (of course)

Why Going Vegetarian For One Day Will Help Stop Global Warming


Americans eat lots of meat. So much so that livestock is now one of the leading contributors to global warming, responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions as measured in a carbon dioxide equivalent. A recent United Nations report concluded that the meat industry causes almost 40% more greenhouse gas emissions than all the world’s transportation systems. (That means all of the globe’s cars, trucks, planes and ships combined.)

Kathy Preston poses an important question for meat-eating Americans concerned about the effects of global warming: what are the effects of going vegetarian for just one day? Here are her astounding statistics about how going vegetarian for a single day can help prevent global warming:

If everyone went vegetarian just for one day, the U.S. would save:
100 billion gallons of water, enough to supply all the homes in New England for almost 4 months;

1.5 billion pounds of crops otherwise fed to livestock, enough to feed the state
of New Mexico for more than a year;

70 million gallons of gas — enough to
fuel all the cars of Canada and Mexico combined with plenty to spare;

3 million acres of land, an area more than twice the size of Delaware;

33 tons of antibiotics.

If everyone went vegetarian just for one day, the U.S. would
prevent:

Greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 1.2 million tons of CO2, as
much as produced by all of France;

3 million tons of soil erosion and $70
million in resulting economic damages;

4.5 million tons of animal excrement;
Almost 7 tons of ammonia emissions, a major air pollutant.

It is undoubtedly clear that human activity causes increased global warming, and America’s dangerous over-consumption of meat is a major contributor to climate change. Adopting a vegetarian diet is an important step towards preventing global warming. And as these alarming statistics suggest, simply decreasing the amount of meat in your diet can have a major impact...