"Mini Me.and I..will put an END to this Global Beefing...after we return from Summer Vacation"
Posted on 07/26/2014 7:02:00 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Production of beef is nearly ten times more damaging to the environment than any other form of meat production, according to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
American scientists measured the environment inputs required for beef production and concluded that beef cattle need 28 times more land and 11 times more irrigation water than pork, poultry, eggs or dairy. […]
The scientists calculated that the amount of resources required for all the feed consumed by edible livestock and worked out the amount of hay, silage and concentrates such as soybeans required by the different species to put on a kilo of weight. They also included greenhouse gas emissions, not just from the production of feed for animals, but from their digestion and manure.
Apart from the effects on land and water, beef cattle release five times more greenhouse gas and consume six times more nitrogen than eggs or poultry. …
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EXCELLENT!!
I thought it said beer production...phew, close one.
Hey! They’re “scientists”! They’ve got to find something to do to look busy or they’ll find a pink slip on their desk.
More Agenda 21.
They will only be happy if 80% of the human population would just disappear.
Save the environment, eat more beef.
Total BS. Everybody needs to start calling these lunatics out at every turn. Its the only way to stop them.
And if I go out hunting liberals curse me out for that as well. You can’t win, they just want to force people to become granola eaters.
So how did the New World survive with all those buffalo running around?
Buffalo-good, cattle-bad!
As far as greenhouse gas production from beef / dairy cattle. If the grass in the field is not consumed by the cow what happens to it? It decomposes in place producing ...... you guessed it - greenhouse gasses!
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