15/04/2022
"EAT LESS MEAT AND DAIRY PRODUCTS"
Emissions from livestock account for about 14.5 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions, globally, and roughly two-thirds of those emissions come from cattle — mostly from methane burped by cows, growing feed, and clearing land for grazing and feed crops.
In October of last year, the journal Nature published a study, saying that, in order to feed the expected 9.7 billion people on the planet in 2050 — and meet the Paris climate accord goals — the world will need to shift toward plant-based diets, in addition to reducing food waste and adopting new farming technologies.
“We find that no single measure is enough to keep these effects within all planetary boundaries simultaneously and that a synergistic combination of measures will be needed to sufficiently mitigate the projected increase in environmental pressures,” the authors wrote.
But the message to the world’s eaters was simple: Eat less meat and dairy.
Article: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21102019/climate-change-meat-beef-dairy-methane-emissions-california/
Video Clip: from Racing Extinction 2015 Film by Discovery Channel
