Global Warming

Do You Think Meat is a Global Warming Issue- True or False

It seems quite surprising discussion. Can it be true that what we put on our dinner plates could have an effect on global warming? Or Save the planet, eat less meat … right? It appears so. There are many human actions that contribute to global warming. Out of which the biggest contributors are the use [...]

It seems quite surprising discussion. Can it be true that what we put on our dinner plates could have an effect on global warming? Or Save the planet, eat less meat … right? It appears so. There are many human actions that contribute to global warming. Out of which the biggest contributors are the use of passenger, electrical generation and other vehicles, international shipping, deforestation, over-consumption, smoking and militarism. (The U.S. military, for example, is the world’s biggest consumer of oil and the world’s biggest polluter.)

What many people are not aware of, however, is that the production of meat also considerably increases global warming. Cow farms produce millions of tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane per year, the two major greenhouse gases that together account for more than 90 percent of U.S. greenhouse emissions, significantly contributing to “global scorching.”

The largely reported link between global warming and cattle farming — propagated by a United Nations report on “Livestock’s Long Shadow” — was also largely inexact, explains one scientist.

In a presentation before the 239th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, Dr. Frank Mitloehner of the University of California said the misleading claims emanate from a 2006 U.N. report, which said that livestock was “responsible for 18 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions,” describing the figure as “a larger share than transportation.” the claim is imprecise because the numbers for livestock were calculated in a different way from the transport statistics.

In the report, the livestock emissions incorporated gases formed by growing animal feed; animals’ digestive emissions; and processing meat and milk into foods. But the transportation study reveals in only emissions from fossil fuels burned while driving, and not all other transport-lifecycle related factors.

He argued that these claims also sidetrack the world from espousal useful solutions to global climate change. He noted that the idea is filling intensely fixed in hard work to curb global warming, citing campaigns for “meatless Mondays” and a European campaign, called “Less Meat = Less Heat,” launched late last year.

“This unbalanced analysis is a classical apples-and-oranges comparison that truly confused the issue,” he said.

Many other mistakes in U.N. reports have been exposed in recent months, following the leak of thousands of e-mails from a a climate-science group in England, a scandal labeled “Climate-gate.”
Global warming may be the most serious global social problem frightening life on Earth. We need to battle global warming on the governmental and corporate levels, and we also need to fight global warming on the daily and personal levels. We need to fight global warming with our forks!