The EPA will require methane collection.
Posted on 04/12/2014 4:51:08 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Correction
April 12, 2014
An earlier version of this story said that the methane emissions associated with livestock come from their farts. In fact, most of those methane emissions come from belches.
Sorry to ruin your appetite, but it's time to talk about cow belches.
Humans the world over are eating meat and drinking milk — some of us a little less, some of us a lot more, than years past. Farmers are bringing more and more cows into the world to meet demand, and with them escapes more methane into the atmosphere.
In 2011, methane from livestock accounted for 39 percent of all the greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, according to a report that United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization released Friday. That's more than synthetic fertilizer or deforestation. Methane from livestock rose 11 percent between 2001 and 2011.
Those emissions, combined with emissions from all the other sectors of food production, aren't likely to go down anytime soon. Greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, forestry and fishing have doubled over the past 50 years, according to the report. Emissions could go up by 30 percent by 2050.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
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The EPA will require methane collection.
Dems want to kill 1/2 the planet with their ideology.
“Farmers are bringing more and more cows into the world to meet demand”...
USDA cattle inventory lowest in more than 60 years
http://nrn.com/commodities-watch/usda-cattle-inventory-lowest-more-60-years
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