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I get mightily peeved about anti-cattle rhetoric in regard to climate change.It is warping the climate change movement's cutting edge and perverting its focus. If you actually do your homework, the story is very different . Here's a very good summary of why the spin/shibboleth is based on inaccurate information: https://theconversation.com/yes-eating-meat-affects-the-environment-but-cows-are-not-killing-the-climate-94968 "A healthy portion of meat’s bad rap centers on the assertion that livestock is the largest source of greenhouse gases worldwide....[In the US]All of agriculture accounted for a total of 9 percent. All of animal agriculture contributes less than half of this amount, representing 3.9 percent of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. That’s very different from claiming livestock represents as much or more than transportation....Why the misconception? In 2006 the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization published a study titled “Livestock’s Long Shadow,” which received widespread international attention. It stated that livestock produced a staggering 18 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. The agency drew a startling conclusion: Livestock was doing more to harm the climate than all modes of transportation combined.This latter claim was wrong, and has since been corrected by Henning Steinfeld, the report’s senior author... To its credit, the FAO immediately owned up to its error. Unfortunately, the agency’s initial claim that livestock was responsible for the lion’s share of world greenhouse gas emissions had already received wide coverage. To this day, we struggle to “unring” the bell..." As for the cynical attack on sequence farming/regenerative grazing -- aside from the drought proofing and soil fertility gains, the whole concept is , I think, the ONLY way to restore rangeland landscapes so that they recover some role in mitigating climate change effects. The research folder is building up that registers how much carbon -- and methane -- this approach can sequester. If you want to read more about this, here's good place to start6: http://soilalliance.blogspot.com/ Much better than relying on 'The Guardian'.... _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
