Fwd: Livestock and Climate Change: 51% of Greenhouse gas

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Livestock and Climate Change

 

by Robert Goodland and Jeff Anhang

 

 

Livestock and Climate Change: What if the key actors in climate

change are...cows, pigs, and chickens?

 

The environmental impact of the lifecycle and supply chain of

animals raised for food has been vastly underestimated, and in fact

accounts for at least half of all human-caused greenhouse gases

(GHGs), according to Robert Goodland and Jeff Anhang, co-authors of " Livestock and Climate Change " .

 

A widely cited 2006 report by the United Nations Food and

Agriculture Organization, Livestock's Long Shadow, estimates

that 18 percent of annual worldwide GHG emissions are attributable to

cattle, buffalo, sheep, goats, camels, pigs, and poultry. But recent

analysis by Goodland and Anhang finds that livestock and their

byproducts actually account for at least 32.6 billion tons of carbon

dioxide per year, or 51 percent of annual worldwide GHG emissions.

 

Read " Livestock and Climate Change, " World Watch

Magazine [FREE PDF]

 

 

 

http://www.worldwatch.orgpdf/Livestock%20and%20Climate%20Change.pdf