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Scientists find beef production harmful to the environment (yeah, this again)
EurActiv ^ | 25/07/2014 - 08:12

Posted on 07/26/2014 7:02:00 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Production of beef is nearly ten times more damaging to the environment than any other form of meat production, according to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

American scientists measured the environment inputs required for beef production and concluded that beef cattle need 28 times more land and 11 times more irrigation water than pork, poultry, eggs or dairy. […]

The scientists calculated that the amount of resources required for all the feed consumed by edible livestock and worked out the amount of hay, silage and concentrates such as soybeans required by the different species to put on a kilo of weight. They also included greenhouse gas emissions, not just from the production of feed for animals, but from their digestion and manure.

Apart from the effects on land and water, beef cattle release five times more greenhouse gas and consume six times more nitrogen than eggs or poultry. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: beef; climatechangehoax; globalwarminghoax; nas
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To: MeshugeMikey

EXCELLENT!!


21 posted on 07/26/2014 7:50:40 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Olog-hai

I thought it said beer production...phew, close one.


22 posted on 07/26/2014 7:55:19 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Olog-hai

Hey! They’re “scientists”! They’ve got to find something to do to look busy or they’ll find a pink slip on their desk.


23 posted on 07/26/2014 7:56:49 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (America is not a refugee camp! It is my home!!!)
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To: Olog-hai

More Agenda 21.
They will only be happy if 80% of the human population would just disappear.


24 posted on 07/26/2014 8:04:23 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Obama lied; our healthcare died.)
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To: Nervous Tick

Save the environment, eat more beef.


25 posted on 07/26/2014 8:16:56 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: Olog-hai

Total BS. Everybody needs to start calling these lunatics out at every turn. Its the only way to stop them.


26 posted on 07/26/2014 8:19:28 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Olog-hai

And if I go out hunting liberals curse me out for that as well. You can’t win, they just want to force people to become granola eaters.


27 posted on 07/26/2014 8:23:14 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: EagleUSA
Thanks!

"Mini Me.and I..will put an END to this Global Beefing...after we return from Summer Vacation"


28 posted on 07/26/2014 8:24:51 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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To: Olog-hai

So how did the New World survive with all those buffalo running around?

Buffalo-good, cattle-bad!


29 posted on 07/26/2014 8:37:05 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need more than seven rounds, Much more.)
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To: Olog-hai

As far as greenhouse gas production from beef / dairy cattle. If the grass in the field is not consumed by the cow what happens to it? It decomposes in place producing ...... you guessed it - greenhouse gasses!


30 posted on 07/26/2014 10:04:39 AM PDT by PeatownPaul (Engineer's moto: It's working, let's fix it)
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To: Olog-hai
And when we had upwards of sixty million Bison roaming the great plains and Deer and Elk in massive numbers, how was the environment harmed then? What lasting harm was seen, please show your work supporting these claims. What? I'll just have to take your word for it because you are a scientist? I'm sorry, you have received a failing grade.
31 posted on 07/26/2014 10:35:14 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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