Rearing cattle produces more greenhouse gases than driving cars, UN report warns

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I'm sorry, where was the we have to stop eating meat speech for al gore in his inconvenient scam movie?

that's right it wasn't there, guess he must be friends with beef produces, ignorant, or a fucking liar

I'll take all three for a hundred Alex

29 November 2006 – Cattle-rearing generates more global warming greenhouse gases, as measured in CO2 equivalent, than transportation, and smarter production methods, including improved animal diets to reduce enteric fermentation and consequent methane emissions, are urgently needed, according to a new United Nations report released today.

“Livestock are one of the most significant contributors to today’s most serious environmental problems,” senior UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) official Henning Steinfeld said. “Urgent action is required to remedy the situation.”

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who needs facts when you scare people.

Global warming is a scam, and its arrogant to think that humans have the power to control the earth's temperature.

and what do you wanna do about?, have the democrats tell the american people how much gas, electricity, natural gas you can use to heat your home, cool your home, get to work

thanks democrats, telling me what to do, how sweet :P

and the government, the democrats solution to everything, (which makes problems worse) will solve it? yeah sure. Cause they've done such a good job, with health care for our troops, protecting our borders, and making sure the shareholders of Enron weren't fleeced.



When emissions from land use and land use change are included, the livestock sector accounts for 9 per cent of CO2 deriving from human-related activities, but produces a much larger share of even more harmful greenhouse gases. It generates 65 per cent of human-related nitrous oxide, which has 296 times the Global Warming Potential (GWP) of CO2. Most of this comes from manure.

The global livestock sector is growing faster than any other agricultural sub-sector. It provides livelihoods to about 1.3 billion people and contributes about 40 per cent to global agricultural output. For many poor farmers in developing countries livestock are also a source of renewable energy for draft and an essential source of organic fertilizer for their crops.

The environmental costs per unit of livestock production must be cut by one half, just to avoid the level of damage worsening beyond its present level,” it warns.