"A United Nations report has identified the world's rapidly growing herds of cattle as the greatest threat to the climate, forests and wildlife. And they are blamed for a host of other environmental crimes, from acid rain to the introduction of alien species, from producing deserts to creating dead zones in the oceans, from poisoning rivers and drinking water to destroying coral reefs. The 400-page report by the Food and Agricultural Organisation, entitled 'Livestock's Long Shadow,' also surveys the damage done by sheep, chickens, pigs and goats. But in almost every case, the world's 1.5 billion cattle are most to blame. Livestock are responsible for 18 per cent of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming... Fuel to produce fertiliser to grow feed, to produce meat and to transport it - and clearing vegetation for grazing - produces 9 per cent of all emissions of carbon dioxide, the most common greenhouse gas. And their wind and manure emit more than one third of emissions of another, methane which warms the world 20 times faster than carbon dioxide."
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Livestock Over-Production & Over-Consumption Generating 18% of All Greenhouse Gases
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Livestock's Long Shadow
By Geoffrey Lean
London Independent, 12.10.06
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rogerb
Feb 1 2008, 01:53 PM
Come on folks, the warming "theory" cannot be supported by the facts, and besides almost every living thing(animals,humans) produces carbon dioxide! And an amazing thing happens; all green vegetation takes in that "bad" gas and exchanges it with good old oxygen.
The planet earth is and has always been in a constant state of change and climate is cyclical. Yes Henny Penny the sky is NOT falling, it is the greedy world powers that want more control and more money.