Unless you’ve been living in a cave (and inadvertently reducing your environmental footprint) you’ll know that there’s a lot of buzz around global warming. I find it really, though, odd that one of the biggest contributors to global warming is glossed over and often-time not even mentioned.
Can you guess what it is?
In late 2006 the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) published a research report and found that the live stock sector (the ranching and slaughter of cattle and other animals) generates an estimated 18 percent of total human-induced greenhouse-gas emissions globally. This is more than the impact transportation has on global warming.
In order to provide a complete view on the issue of global warming the consideration of the impact of meat eating needs to be included. You cannot be serious about the environment and the global warming problem unless you are serious about what you eat (or don’t).
There is a wonderful document published by Compassion in World Farming Trust, available as a PDF, that outlines the Global Benefits of Eating Less Meat.
Here are a number of additional links for further elucidation on the issue of meat eating and global warming:
