UN Report: Life Kills Planet
No, actually, what it seems to say is that our big time meat eating - industrial meat producing lifestyle is putting the hurt on the planet. Specifically, the report’s headline grabbing claim is that the manure industry contributes more to global warming than automobiles:
When emissions from land use and land use change are included, the livestock sector accounts for 9 percent of CO2 deriving from human-related activities, but produces a much larger share of even more harmful greenhouse gases. It generates 65 percent of human-related nitrous oxide, which has 296 times the Global Warming Potential (GWP) of CO2. Most of this comes from manure.
And it accounts for respectively 37 percent of all human-induced methane (23 times as warming as CO2), which is largely produced by the digestive system of ruminants, and 64 percent of ammonia, which contributes significantly to acid rain.
Link (The Pig Site). The report notes that livestock is growing at a greater pace than any other agricultural sector on a global level.
