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Date Posted: 15:38:19 12/12/06 Tue
In reply to:
Curmudgeon
's message, ""Cow 'emissions' more damaging to planet than CO2 from cars" --" on 09:54:12 12/11/06 Mon
>"A United Nations report has identified the world's
>rapidly growing herds of cattle as the GREATEST THREST
>TO THE CLIMATE, FORESTS AND WILDLIFE." [CAPS added]
>_______________________________________________________
>__
>
>Cow 'emissions' more damaging to planet than CO2 from
>cars
>By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor
>Published: 10 December 2006
>
>Meet the world's top destroyer of the environment. It
>is not the car, or the plane,or even George Bush: it
>is the cow.
>
>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, more than cars, planes and
>all other forms of transport put together.
>
>Burning 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.
>
>Livestock also produces more than 100 other polluting
>gases, including more than two-thirds of the world's
>emissions of ammonia, one of the main causes of acid
>rain.
>
>Ranching, the report adds, is "the major driver of
>deforestation" worldwide, and overgrazing is turning a
>fifth of all pastures and ranges into desert.Cows also
>soak up vast amounts of water: it takes a staggering
>990 litres of water to produce one litre of milk.
>
>Wastes from feedlots and fertilisers used to grow
>their feed overnourish water, causing weeds to choke
>all other life. And the pesticides, antibiotics and
>hormones used to treat them get into drinking water
>and endanger human health.
>
>The pollution washes down to the sea, killing coral
>reefs and creating "dead zones" devoid of life. One is
>up to 21,000sqkm, in the Gulf of Mexico, where much of
>the waste from US beef production is carried down the
>Mississippi.
>
>The report concludes that, unless drastic changes are
>made, the massive damage done by livestock will more
>than double by 2050, as demand for meat increases.
>
>Meet the world's top destroyer of the environment. It
>is not the car, or the plane,or even George Bush: it
>is the cow.
>
>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, more than cars, planes and
>all other forms of transport put together.
>
>Burning 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.
>Livestock also produces more than 100 other polluting
>gases, including more than two-thirds of the world's
>emissions of ammonia, one of the main causes of acid
>rain.
>
>Ranching, the report adds, is "the major driver of
>deforestation" worldwide, and overgrazing is turning a
>fifth of all pastures and ranges into desert.Cows also
>soak up vast amounts of water: it takes a staggering
>990 litres of water to produce one litre of milk.
>
>Wastes from feedlots and fertilisers used to grow
>their feed overnourish water, causing weeds to choke
>all other life. And the pesticides, antibiotics and
>hormones used to treat them get into drinking water
>and endanger human health.
>
>The pollution washes down to the sea, killing coral
>reefs and creating "dead zones" devoid of life. One is
>up to 21,000sqkm, in the Gulf of Mexico, where much of
>the waste from US beef production is carried down the
>Mississippi.
>
>The report concludes that, unless drastic changes are
>made, the massive damage done by livestock will more
>than double by 2050, as demand for meat increases.
>
>
>
>
>href="http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article
>2062484.ece">http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/
>article2062484.ece
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