consciouseating
The Meat of
is a “major player” in
…livestock is a “major player”
climate change, ac-
in climate change, accounting
counting for 18 percent
the Matter
of all greenhouse gas
for 18 percent of all greenhouse
emissions. That’s more
gas emissions. That’s more than
than the worldwide
transportation system.
the worldwide transportation
The U.S. Department of
system.
Agriculture (USDA) re-
indirectly results in 50 percent of all
ports that the American
antibiotic use; and dumps a third of all
meat industry produced
nitrogen and phosphorous into global
more than 1.4 billion
Eating Livestock
freshwater supplies.
tons of combined wastes in 1997—fi ve
Raising livestock is the single larg-
Carries Environmental
tons for every citizen and 130 times
est human-related use of land. Grazing
the volume of human waste. Methane,
occupies 26 percent of the ice-free and
Consequences
a global warming gas 23 times more
water-free surface of our planet, and
potent than CO
2
, comes from many
cropland to feed those animals devours
A
sk most Americans what causes human sources, but livestock account
global warming, and they’ll
33 percent of Earth’s arable land. All
for 37 percent of its total. And waste is
point to a coal plant’s smoke-
that grazing leaves an impact.
just one of meat’s many harmful and
stack or a car’s tailpipe. But two other
The UN reports that 20 percent
far-reaching environmental side effects.
images should be granted similar iconic
of the world’s pastures and rangelands
Livestock production consumes 8
status: the front and rear ends of a cow.
have been degraded through overgraz-
percent of the world’s water, mainly to
According to a little-known
ing, soil compaction and erosion. Meat
irrigate animal feed; causes 55 percent
2006 United Nations (UN) report,
production leads to deforestation,
of land erosion and sediment; uses 37
“Livestock’s Long Shadow,” livestock
too—grazing now occupies 70 percent
percent of all pesticides; directly or
of previously forested land in the Ama-
zon region.
Worse, the food grown to feed ani-
mals could be feeding more people. For
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