Eating meat and Carbon emissions?!
Answers: I'm a meat eater and I'm proud of it. What i'm asking is is eating meat and carbon emissions as closely related as the media says it to be?
Okay before you get attacked by the militant vegetarians dude i totally understand where you're coming from with this the recent report stating that livestock is a major culprit of deforestation and C02 emissions. What you have to realise is that whilst this may be the case these animals aren't going anywhere so by not eating meat you are effectively adding to the problem by not taking some of the livestock out of the equation.
What this report doesn't state is the deforestation due to soy crops being planted. Did you know that soy crops actually cause ground salinisation so that when the crop is harvested the soil is so rich in salt that the ground cannot be used again? So they have to mow down more forests to plant new soy crops so by being vegetarian you actually cause more deforestation by abstaining from meat than if you eat meat which is helping keep the worlds animals at a reasonable level.
Did you also know that there are literally millions of animals(rabbits, rats, birds etc) which are killed each year by combine harvesters which mean that the food vegetarians eat is soaked in the blood of innocent animals which are then just left to rot. As a proud meat eater we know any animal we kill will be eaten and not let go to waste!
So be proud of your juicy steak and eat a lot of it it is rich in vitamins and minerals you would otherwise have to get from a bottle.
(I copied & pasted from previous posting)
What do you mean? If you say human is major culprit in devastation that is true. Did you know that rainforests covers 7% of the earth's surface yet they contain only of the animal species in the world?
Today’s population (approx)
--------------------------------------...
Human : 6.7 billion
***LIVESTOCK : 30 billion***
Rainforest : 7%
2050’s population (approx)
--------------------------------------...
Human : 9 billion
***LIVESTOCK : 40 billion*** (a man to 4 livestock ratio)
Rainforest : 0%
Therefore being a typical end-user it awful to believe that livestock invaded major segment of oxygen, land, wealth and resources than human; Livestock now use 30 percent of the earth's entire land surface, mostly permanent pasture but also including 33 percent of the global arable land used to producing feed for livestock, while inhabit larger land space than human. Of course human are the culprit in propagating the livestock and ruin the world for his desire. The livestock business is among the most damaging sectors to the earth's increasingly scarce water resources, contributing among other things to water pollution, euthropication and the degeneration of coral reefs. The major polluting agents are animal wastes, antibiotics and hormones, chemicals from tanneries, fertilizers and the pesticides used to spray feed crops. Widespread overgrazing disturbs water cycles, reducing replenishment of above and below ground water resources. Significant amounts of water are withdrawn for the production of feed.
Most people assume that global warming is caused by burning oil and gas. But in fact between 25 and 30 percent of the greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere each year -- 1.6 billion tonnes -- is caused by deforestation. ... 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. If the present rate of increase continues, carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere will increase to about 700 parts per million by 2100. So simple is that!
It’s bullshit if someone troll that human CAUSE NO AFFECT ON GLOBAL WARMING therefore no consent in saving the LAST TREE. Assume the world reached acute shortage for oxygen, land space and resources, we have no other choice than giving up livestock; while human eat each others for survival. A win-win situation! Unless everyone turned to be VEGETARIANS – an impossible thing to happen by today.
Not really. While increasing greenhouse gasses have been attributed partly to cattle, 75% of all carbon emissions are from transportation and other major industries.
Cows cannot defend themselves against media bias as can factories and big multinational corporations.
KING is almost there.
Eating meat crazy bad for you, damn bad for environment. Don't troll here; Compaction of human and livestock with no tree will affect on CO2 and O. Just imagine if you're living with no other choice, cultivating your own organic urban farming and livestock in your home. Which one is possible?
In my view point, meater cause 4 to 5 times greater carbon emission than a vegger in one way to another. If we consider those deforestation for grazing patches, I would speculate the damage is much higher.
Exsft,
I'm not sure where you're getting your misinformation from. The vast majority of soy grown worldwide is destined for animal feed. A much smaller chunk is used by industries, and a very, very, very small percentage goes into human food.
Eating meat and carbon emissions are very closely linked. Beef generates about 24 times more CO2 than an equivalent vegie and rice dinner. As other people have said, thousands of hectares of rain forest are cleared every year to house or graze animals. Even more land is cleared to grow grains to feed these animals (grains which could be used to feed starving people). This is in addition to the massive amounts of waste they produce, which goes largely untreated into the environment. I'm not trying to convert you, just inform you that your decision to eat meat does have an impact on the environment. There is heaps of research out there and tones of statistics. Here is an interesting article well worth the read. I'm glad to hear that some omni's are concerned, good on ya.
Since plant eating animals such as cattle and vegetarians produce the most amount of carbon emissions , eliminating or limiting both would seem to be the solution doesn't it?
FAO& UN report
http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006...
The full ( very very long) report The Long Shadow of Livestock
http://www.virtualcentre.org/en/library/...
No, the media is just trying to scare us. Eating meat is part of the circle of life. And Carbon emission from humans and cows is perfectly natural. However emissions from vehicles is not natural.
Was the media coverage mostly about the rainforest clearance in Brazil to convert land to beef production for export to the US, or about the food-miles involved, or about the excess methane produced by the cattle? Or a combination of these?
@Exsft: By my response, I was asking Terry to be more specific about the media coverage, so we'd know exactly what he was on about. I don't think that calls for a thumbs-down. And no, I haven't given you one, btw.
Update: Haha! 1 ahead of you at the moment!
the media is run by special interest groups. I pay them little mind.
besides, it would be a small price to pay for a taco....in my opinion