In the meantime, while you enjoy your cheap meat, poultry, eggs, etc..... You are polluting my world too! According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the animal agriculture sector—which includes the production of feed crops, the manufacturing of fertilizer, and the shipment of meat, eggs, and milk5—is responsible for 18% of all GHG emissions, measured in carbon-dioxide equivalent.6 In fact, the farm animal sector annually accounts for: 9% of human-induced emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2),7 37% of emissions of methane (CH4), which has more than 20 times the global warming potential (GWP) of CO2,8 and 65% of emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O), which has nearly 300 times the GWP of CO2.9
Posted on: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 18:11:23 +0000
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