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Greenhouse emissions from meat/dairy production (the all chain) in highly efficient meat industries of 1st world countries, are negligible when compared to to o
by wtdata 7y ago
Greenhouse emissions from meat/dairy production (the all chain) in highly efficient meat industries of 1st world countries, are negligible when compared to to other sources. [1]
Even when looking at the global numbers and taking into account countries with less efficient systems, the global total is still less than 15% of all greenhouse emissions. [2]
[1] https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emissions https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emis...
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_meat_production https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_meat...
- superpermutat0r 7y agoWell, even if CO2 footprint of animal agriculture is the lowest out of all human activities, there are externalities like fecal waste, water pollution, deforestation and many more without any CO2 added when calculating the footprint. Your best example could have been China. Not the western first world. For China, CO2 footprint of food raising activities is not even in the top 10. The manufacturing industry there is brutal, combined with heating and cooling.