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Livestock’s Effect on Global Warming: In January, 2007, the
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization published a report,
Livestock’s Long Shadow, with a stunning conclusion: “The
livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most significant
contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale
from local to global.” A news summary described the findings: “The
researchers found that, when it’s all added up, the average American does
more to reduce global warming emissions by going vegetarian than by
switching to a Prius.” The U.N. found that the 18 percent of total
global warming emissions coming from animal agriculture exceeded
emissions from all the world’s transportation combined. Animal
agriculture accounts for 9 percent of world carbon dioxide emissions, but
37 percent of methane and 65 percent of nitrous oxide emissions.
Feeding animals for meat, dairy, and egg production requires growing ten
times the crops needed to provide the same calories of food directly for
human consumption. Then the animals must be transported to
slaughterhouses, refrigerated, and distributed to market. Producing
a calorie of animal protein on a plate takes more than ten times the
fossil fuel and carbon dioxide emissions than delivering a plant calorie
to that plate. The U.N. report found animal agriculture takes up 70
percent of all agricultural land, amounting to 30 percent of the total
land surface of the planet. Land animals raised for food make up 20
percent of the entire land animal biomass of the earth. In the U.S.
we slaughter 10 billion land animals a year, producing 5 million tons of
manure a day - more than a hundred times that produced by the nation’s
human population.
Laurie Bower was just hired as the new director of the Southwest Grassfed
Livestock Alliance (SWGLA). Her previous jobs were with the Tesuque
Agricultural Initiative, a program to provide for 80% of the food needs
for the 600-member pueblo from reservation farming; and Sustainable
Settings, a 240-acre working model of sustainable farming in Carbondale,
Colorado.
Peaceful Valley Farm Supply: <IntheLoop.GrowOrganic.com> is
the subset of Peaceful Valley’s website which has “gardening tips and
wisdom.”
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