Task 8
Animal Agriculture
Did you know that animal agriculture is responsible for more than 18% of greenhouse gas emissions? That's more than the combined exhaust from all transportation! Transportation exhaust is responsible for 13% of all greenhouse gas emissions. Livestock is responsible for 65% of all human-related emissions of nitrous oxide (a greenhouse gas with 296 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide, which stays in the atmosphere for 150 years. That is a lot going on and we don't even notice it because we do things without thinking about it. Animal agriculture does cause global warming, believe it or not. The main way is through deforestation. It is caused by the expansion of pasture land and arable land used to grow feed crops. Animal agriculture is used for significant source of other greenhouse gases. For …show more content…
About a third of the world's crops are fed to animals and a third of all freshwater. Some people depend on raising animals, some animals provide protein in people's diets, but beef is an inefficient source of food. Research by Mario Herrero of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Australia, start establishing data set on biomass use, meat production, feed efficiency and other measures of livestock farming. Results confirm that efficiency in livestock varies hugely. The ratio of almost every animal who gives out meat for us to eat is doubled by the resources it needs to get fat in order to be able to weigh enough for meat to feed us. Although new research shows that there is an enormous spread of efficiency throughout livestock farming, but not just between animals. The milk given by cows takes five times as much feed produce to form protein in the form meat than milk. There are risks in everything. But the efficiencies in livestock farming imply better use of basic resources such as land and water, which is needed for the
Animal Agriculture
Did you know that animal agriculture is responsible for more than 18% of greenhouse gas emissions? That's more than the combined exhaust from all transportation! Transportation exhaust is responsible for 13% of all greenhouse gas emissions. Livestock is responsible for 65% of all human-related emissions of nitrous oxide (a greenhouse gas with 296 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide, which stays in the atmosphere for 150 years. That is a lot going on and we don't even notice it because we do things without thinking about it. Animal agriculture does cause global warming, believe it or not. The main way is through deforestation. It is caused by the expansion of pasture land and arable land used to grow feed crops. Animal agriculture is used for significant source of other greenhouse gases. For …show more content…
About a third of the world's crops are fed to animals and a third of all freshwater. Some people depend on raising animals, some animals provide protein in people's diets, but beef is an inefficient source of food. Research by Mario Herrero of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Australia, start establishing data set on biomass use, meat production, feed efficiency and other measures of livestock farming. Results confirm that efficiency in livestock varies hugely. The ratio of almost every animal who gives out meat for us to eat is doubled by the resources it needs to get fat in order to be able to weigh enough for meat to feed us. Although new research shows that there is an enormous spread of efficiency throughout livestock farming, but not just between animals. The milk given by cows takes five times as much feed produce to form protein in the form meat than milk. There are risks in everything. But the efficiencies in livestock farming imply better use of basic resources such as land and water, which is needed for the