Carbon-Friendly Beef? Look to Africa, Experts Say
Posted by Jimalakirti in Climate Change
at 2:36 pm on Monday, 7 June 2010
at 2:36 pm on Monday, 7 June 2010
(Solve Climate, June 7, 2010)
Studies in Africa reveal that raising livestock through pastoralism is ‘far more’ ecological than crop production
In 2006, a landmark report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) found that livestock production contributes 18 percent to global carbon dioxide emissions — more than automobiles. Since then, meat production has been insistently and ringingly hammered, and the message has been loud and clear: eat less meat to cut your carbon footprint, slow deforestation and keep healthier.