It’s amazing how much we love our children, would do anything to protect them except when we dine their way to climate devastation by consuming animals. We must keep fighting the good fight!
Food Systems and Extinction: How an Appetite for Change Could Save the Wild”
Meat-centered food production is one of the most destructive industries on Earth, with livestock occupying more than a quarter of the planet and using nearly 80% of all agricultural land. Globally, food production accounts for as much as 51% of climate emissions, with the United States contributing more than most countries. U.S. food policy shields industry from limits on dirty practices harmful to wildlife and humans — and continues to allow the use of toxics that threaten endangered species. Americans, (Australia/UK) currently eat two to three times the global average of meat, and tens of thousands of wild animals are killed every year to protect livestock. Acting now to revolutionize the way we grow and consume food is critical to addressing both the extinction crisis and the climate emergency in every country. https://takeextinctionoffyourplate.com/social-media-shareables
FACEBOOK/META FAILED by a recent report by “Countering Digital Hate” CCDH: a major report found that people viewed climate misinformation on FB about 1 Million times per day. While also allowing the illegal trade of wildlife as will as illegal selling of land in Amazon Forest. As reported by @ecowatch FB promised to fight misinformation creating misinformation noting that inaccurate posts about climate change in FB receive an estimate of 13 times more views. Meta tells Reuter, “We hadn’t completely rolled out our labeling program.”
https://www.ecowatch.com/facebook-posts-climate-change-denial.html
Thus, this explains why a vegan mind you- actually said to me on one of my post “Global Warming is a lie,” he couldn’t go against the factual studies presented to him, continued below.
GREENHOUSE GASES -Animal agriculture is responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, more than the combined exhaust from all transportation. [i]”Livestock’s Long Shadow: environmental issues and options”. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Rome 2006
US Methane emissions from livestock and natural gas are nearly equal.”Overview of Greenhouse Gases”. United States Environmental Protection Agency.”Key facts and findings. By the numbers: GHG emissions by livestock”. FAO. (New)”Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks 1990-2015″. United States Environmental Protection Agency (new)Cows produce 150 billion gallons of methane per day. [xi]Ross, Phillip. “Cow Farts Have ‘Larger Greenhouse Gas Impact’ Than Previously Thought; Methane Pushes Climate Change”. International Business Times. 26 November, 2013250-500 liters per cow per day, x 1.5 billion cows globally is 99 – 198.1 billion gallons. Rough average of 150 billion gallons CH4 globally per day.Miller, Scot M, et al. “Anthropegnic emissions of methane in the United States”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Vol. 110. No. 50. 18 October 2013 (new)
Transportation exhaust is responsible for 13% of all greenhouse gas emissions. [.i]
Greenhouse gas emissions from this sector primarily involve fossil fuels burned for road, rail, air, and marine transportation.
“Livestock’s Long Shadow: environmental issues and options”. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Rome 2006
Environmental Protection Agency. “Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data”.
Livestock and their byproducts account for at least 32,000 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year, or 51% of all worldwide greenhouse gas emissions.
Goodland, R Anhang, J. “Livestock and Climate Change: What if the key actors in climate change were pigs, chickens and cows?”
Goodland, Robert & Anhang, Jeff. “Livestock and Climate Change: What if the key actors in climate change are…cows, pigs and chickens?”. WorldWatch. November/December 2009
Hickman, Martin. “Study claims meat creates half of all greenhouse gases”. Independent. November 2009
Hyner, Christopher. “A Leading Cause of Everything: One Industry That Is Destroying Our Planet and Our Ability to Thrive on It”. Georgetown Environmental Law Review. October 23, 2015. (New)
Methane is 25-100 times more destructive than CO2 on a 20 year time frame.
Shindell, Drew T, et al. “Improved Attribution of Climate Forcing to Emissions”. Science. 326, 716 (2009)
Vaidyanathan, Sayathri. “How Bad of a Greenhouse Gas is Methane? The global warming potential of the gaseous fossil fuel may be consistently underestimated”. Scientific American. December 22, 2015.
Methane has a global warming potential 86 times that of CO2 on a 20 year time frame.
Shindell, Drew T, et al. “Improved Attribution of Climate Forcing to Emissions”. Science. 326, 716 (2009)
Livestock is responsible for 65% of all human-related emissions of nitrous oxide – a greenhouse gas with 296 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide, and which stays in the atmosphere for 150 years.
“Livestock’ Long Shadow: environmental issues and options”. FAO. Rome. 2006
“Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States”. U.S. Energy Information Administration. March 31, 2011
