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This is patently false, eliminating all agricultural animals from the US would drop total greenhouse emissions by around 3%. Factoring in transport of said ani
by jm547ster 8y ago
This is patently false, eliminating all agricultural animals from the US would drop total greenhouse emissions by around 3%.
Factoring in transport of said animal goods would only be made worse by a need to ship the bulkier alternative (vegetables)
- mping 8y agoMay I ask where did you get that number? I realized that you only mentioned the US, and I guess the parent was talking about the globe, but still I'd like to know.
- jm547ster 8y agohttps://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/inventoryexplorer/#allsectors/allgas/econsect/current https://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/inventoryexp...
- samfriedman 8y agoThat link shows Agriculture as a contributor of 9.5% of greenhouse gases, with livestock representing about 40% of that total. I'd imagine it's responsible for some proportion of the Transportation (28.7%) emissions as well.
- esailija 8y agoThat cannot be even kind of right. You need to grow and ship 10x more food energy and protein in the form of plants ("vegetables"?) just to have the necessary feed. That's just to make feed (ignoring water and raising altogether) and it's already absurdly more wasteful than it would have been just to eat the plants directly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_efficiency#Ten_percent_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_efficiency#Ten_perc...