A
just-released report in the November/December issue of World Watch
Magazine has concluded that livestock raising is responsible for at
least 51 percent of global warming.
Authors Dr. Robert Goodland,
former lead environmental advisor to the World Bank, and World Bank
research officer Jeff Anhang built upon “Livestock’s Long Shadow,” the
report published in 2006 by the United Nations Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO).
They calculated for areas not previously
considered and updated others, including the lifecycle emissions of
farmed fish production, CO2 from animal respirations , and an actual
corrected tally that resulted in a more than doubling of the reported
number of livestock animals on the planet.
Livestock's methane
emissions were also factored in as being 72 times more heat-trapping in
the atmosphere than CO2. This represents a more accurate increase from
the original FAO calculations of 23 times the warming potential.
Even
so, the researchers cautioned that the sum of their estimates was
minimized, and therefore the 51 percent emissions total is still
conservative. In a question and answer article on the website
vegclimatealliance.org, the authors concluded:“It is now possible to
understand that the dramatic expansion of the livestock sector in recent
decades may imperil humanity, and that there may be no way to manage
the climate risk of either the food industry or the world at large other
than by replacing livestock products with better alternatives.”
Our
thankful appreciation, Dr. Goodland, Mr. Anhang, participating
scientists and World Watch Institute, for your work showing that
meat consumption is clearly the single largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions.
Let
us ever more swiftly replace animal products with their planet-cooling
veg alternatives to preserve our ecosphere and all lives. Supreme
Master Ching Hai has often offered support for this most direct solution
to saving humanity and the Earth, as during an interview for the July
12, 2009 edition of the Irish Sunday Independent.
Supreme Master Ching Hai:
Livestock is the single largest emitter of methane. Moreover, because
of methane’s faster disappearance from the atmosphere, if we stop eating
meat the planet will be able to cool immediately.
Livestock
raising and animal breeding also cause many other damages to our
planet. Livestock, by far, is the single largest human-related occupier
of land, the main driver of deforestation, the biggest water polluter,
and top culprit of biodiversity loss.
Supreme Master Ching Hai:
Eighty percent of the Amazon’s deforested land are converted to grazing
pastures for cattle. Of the remaining deforested land, the majority is
used for growing soy. Eighty-five percent of the world’s soy is fed to
the cattle that will be slaughtered for human consumption.
Everything points in the same direction, that is, meat
diet. see? If we stop consuming animal products, much of this lethal
source is eliminated and the heat it creates will also disappear.
Supreme Master Ching Hai: : So, with the vegan
diet, we eat what’s best for our health, for the animals, for the
environment, and nature will do the rest to restore the balance and save
our world.
Referencehttp://www.worldwatch.org/node/6294
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