Animal Agriculture Causes Global Warming

Jun 23, 2008 — Kristian

In a groundbreaking 2006 report, the United Nations (U.N.) confirmed that raising animals for food generates more greenhouse gases than all the cars, trucks, SUVs, planes, and ships in the world combined. Senior U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization official Henning Steinfeld reported that the meat industry is “one of the most significant contributors to today’s most serious environmental problems.”

Carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide together cause the vast majority of global warming. Raising animals for food is one of the largest sources of carbon dioxide and the single largest source of both methane and nitrous oxide emissions. A recent University of Chicago report determined that going vegan is 50% more effective than switching from a standard American car to a hybrid.

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We should get rid of those Cows!

cowboyrich - Jan 28 2011 - 1:50pm

Lets eat them danged ole cows! They're killin the ozone! So I propose this: EAT MORE BEEF!!!

YOU ALL ARE WRONG

makioble - Nov 30 2010 - 12:00am

ITS NOW HOW MANY ANIMALS ARE ON EARTH. ITS NOT HOW MANY YOU CAN SQUEEZE IN A SMALL AREA. SO YOU CAN DO IT AND HAVE NO PROBLEMS BUT ITS UNTIL WE KILL THE ANIMAL THAT IT BECOMES SIN AND THIS COMBINATION OF TAKING GODS CREATURES TORMENTING THEM SLATHERING THEM AND THEN EATING THEM IS THE PROBLEM AND MAY CAUSE THE GLOBAL WARMING.

This is why I'm a vegan

DCVegan - May 12 2010 - 11:52pm

In my opinion this is the best reason not to eat meat . It's an easy and effective way to do a solid for the earth and future generations.

@Bonnie1 - Your link is broken and your opinion is in the overwhelming minority.

@marxandlennon - You have a good point. I would happily eat venison. However, your argument is usually used as a distraction by people who want to continue eating meat . Just because a tiny fraction of the meat we eat is produced in ethical ways doesn't make it morally permissible to eat the rest of it.

Oh Really?

Bleininger14 - Aug 12 2009 - 3:50pm

The funny thing is that this was disproven, but oh wait PETA providing misleading information, what a shocker!

UN Livestock Report Is Just Plain Wrong

Bonnie1 - Apr 11 2009 - 9:27pm

The UN report "Livestock's Long Shadow" that supposedly proved that livestock creates 18 percent of greenhouse gases is a good example of how easy it is to lie with statistics. For the complete explanation of why the conclusions in the report are wrong, please read http://www.consumerfreedom.com/news_detail.cfm /headline/3742.

Go hunt, then.

marxandlennon - Sep 17 2008 - 8:26pm

The problem PETA seems to have is based, in large part, on animal agriculture. Fine then: go hunt. There is, in many states (my home state of PA, for instance) an overabundance of game animals such as the white tailed deer. Deer are not grain fed, they don't require huge areas of leveled pasturage, and venison and other game is much better for you than processed meat. Hunting game doesn't contribute to global warming, cause starvation, or harm the environment in any way- hunters pay disproportionately for conservation efforts, AND hunting the deer population, for instance, down to a natural levels puts humans back into a stable ecological niche as predators.

Scary but not so much

sumwatt - Jul 24 2008 - 10:46am

This point is largely irrelevant as well. Using it to support your argument implies that stopping the process of raising animals will reduce greenhouse gases. But there is a large hole in that theory: When people stop raising animals, they will turn to doing other things that will increase the amount of greenhouse gases in those areas that were lower than livestock outputs.

We don't damage the way we used to.

M3house - Aug 15 2008 - 1:08pm

Planning has come a long way, we tend to put more into it now.

But I'll humor you; switching from animal to grain and/or veggie production increases global warming how? More methane... uh no. More brown sun absorbing soil exposure... uh uh, just the opposite. Come up with something please, what are these mysterious "other things" you mention?

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