# Aliens demand the human race turn vegetarian - could we do it? Should we?

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**Created:** [March 30, 2010, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aliens-demand-the-human-race-turn-vegetarian-could-we-do-it-should-we/534390 "2010-03-30T22:26:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![may\_be\_ignorant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c5a1d2/32.png) [@may\_be\_ignorant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/may_be_ignorant)\
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My Grandma would immediatley convince herself that is was Obama, not aliens.

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aliens-demand-the-human-race-turn-vegetarian-could-we-do-it-should-we/534390/62 "2010-04-03T21:21:37Z")

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> [@Lust4Life](#):
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> Wouldn’t it also be environmentally unfrendly ?
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> Veggies fart alot more then omnivores so this would definitely have a massive effect if all humans went veggie.

I would hazard a guess that a world full of veggie humans would be less farty overall than at present - at the moment, we delegate a lot of our farting to the herbivorous food animals we eat.

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