Food + Health - Saturday, October 24, 2009 1:34 - 1 Comment

Steak ‘n Bake? 51% of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Now Come From Meat & Dairy Industry

by Matthew McDermott, New York, NY on 10.21.09

We’ve long said that cutting meat and dairy out of your diet, or at minimum cutting back deeply on their consumption, is one of the most powerful personal steps you can take towards mitigating climate change. But new analysis from Worldwatch Institute shows that the impact of raising livestock and poultry is much greater than previously thought and actually amounts to approximately 51% of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions:

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