Are cattle warming the globe?
Lori Weddle-Schott, University of Minnesota Beef Team
Paula Waggoner, Capricorn Communications
Consumers want to save the environment as long as it’s not inconvenient. Since the release of a United Nations (U.N.) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report in 2006, we’ve heard more and more about the carbon foot prints and the green house gases generated in livestock production. That report claims that, on a global basis, raising livestock generates more greenhouse gas emissions as measured in carbon dioxide equivalent than use of fossil fuels in driving cars and trucks. This factoid was picked up the media and has become the latest rallying cry of the anti-meat activist.
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