Summary of emissions of agriculture and livestock

Agriculture contributes about 25% of all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and about 80% of that comes from products of animal agriculture such as meat, milk, and eggs. The agriculture industry has major impacts on the environment, as live-stock production accounts for 70% of all agricultural land and 30% of the land surface […] Another 25% of greenhouse gases are from electricity and heat. (Mulvaney 2020, p. 218 f.).

Stats from 🔮 The Game Changers Egg, fish, meat, dairy farming require 80% of farmland but only provide 18% of worlds calories. (Poore at al, Science 360(6392)987 92)

  • in the united states, farm animals produce 50x more waste than the US population

Excluding the biomass of humans, 94% of mammal biomass on this planet is livestock.

See 🔮 SEEDS-A for info on low crop diversity in agriculture and 🔮 MMSMeatStickA for an in-the-works sticker through which I try to find the right words facing ethical neglect of animal rights.

#agriculture #livestock

REFERENCES

Mulvaney, D. (2020). Sustainable Energy Transitions: Socio-Ecological Dimensions of Decarbonization (1st ed. 2020, p. 258). Palgrave Macmillan.


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