consciouseating
…livestock is a “major player”
The meat of
in climate change, accounting
for 18 percent of all greenhouse
gas emissions. That’s more than
the matter
the worldwide transportation
system.
Livestock production consumes 8
percent of the world’s water, mainly to
irrigate animal feed; causes 55 percent
of land erosion and sediment; uses 37
percent of all pesticides; directly or
indirectly results in 50 percent of all
antibiotic use; and dumps a third of all
nitrogen and phosphorous into global
freshwater supplies.
Raising livestock is the single larg-
est human-related use of land. Grazing
eating livestock Carries
occupies 26 percent of the ice-free and
environmental Consequences
water-free surface of our planet, and
cropland to feed those animals devours
33 percent of Earth’s arable land. All
by Jim motavalli
that grazing leaves an impact.
The UN reports that 20 percent
A
sk most Americans what causes global warming, and they’ll point to a
of the world’s pastures and rangelands
coal plant’s smokestack or a car’s tailpipe. But two other images should be
have been degraded through over-
granted similar iconic status: the front and rear ends of a cow.
grazing, soil compaction and erosion.
According to a little-known 2006 United Nations (UN) report, “Livestock’s
Meat production leads to deforestation,
Long Shadow,” livestock is a “major player” in climate change, accounting for 18
too—grazing now occupies 70 percent
percent of all greenhouse gas emissions. That’s more than the worldwide transpor-
of previously forested land in the Ama-
tation system.
zon region.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reports that the American meat
Worse, the food grown to feed ani-
industry produced more than 1.4 billion tons of combined wastes in 1997—five
mals could be feeding more people. For
tons for every citizen and 130 times the volume of human waste. Methane, a
example, livestock eat 90 percent of the
global warming gas 23 times more potent than CO
2
, comes from many human
U.S. soy crop, 80 percent of our corn
sources, but livestock account for 37 percent of its total. And waste is just one of
and 70 percent of the grain produced in
meat’s many harmful and far-reaching environmental side effects.
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