Posted on 10/24/2018 6:41:50 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The global food system’s environmental impact is large and growing. Nearly a quarter of all planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions come from food production and associated land-use change. And as incomes rise and more people move to cities, consumption of meat and dairy - foods with outsized climate impacts - is on the rise.
Limiting the global rise in meat consumption - in particular, beef, lamb and goat - is critical for reining in runaway warming. Ruminant meats have the highest resource requirements of any foods we eat. Producing beef, for example, uses 20 times the land and emits 20 times the emissions as producing beans, per gram of protein. Researchers have shown that even when accounting for future improvements in agriculture and reductions in food waste, shifting the diets of higher-income consumers toward plant-based foods remains essential for meeting climate targets.
The science is clear: The world is on track for a dangerous level of warming, and all sectors must do their part to reverse course. Some powerful initiatives already are cutting back food-related emissions. But as the data show, change must be widespread - across billions of meals - and the level of ambition must be in line with the scope of the climate challenge. Everyone from consumers to chefs and corporate executives to policymakers has a role to play in shifting diets for a sustainable food future.
(Excerpt) Read more at greenbiz.com ...
“Gas-X”. It ain’t that hard warmunists. Sheesh. And ‘they’ pay you how much? ;-)
Now I see the connection between the climate and vegan kooks!
Thanks for the reminder... need to pick up ribeyes.
Control is a big part of who they are.
Control is an oppressive form of power.
False article. There is no global warming. Watch Mark Levin’s show from this past Sunday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frviKqDWRl4
Land, maybe. But don't underestimate the problem of bean ...emissions.
"More beans, Mr. Taggart."
"Dang, I'd say you've had enough."
Here in NC, this week’s temps are forecast to be 10 to 20 degrees below normal.
Now it is beef vs beans. Haven’t they heard, the sun is going into a cooling cycle. Evidence points to a new ice age starting. I would consider moving south.
We don’t have the land to grow enough food to feed the world on veggies.
I may be wrong, but I get the impression that some of these folks won’t be satisfied until we’re all reduced to subsistence living; they’d be even happier if most of us just died off.
I think there was a recent article talking about gasoline taxes in excess of $200 a gallon! That would put most people into starvation territory pretty quickly.
Save the earth by killing off Western civilization!
No more Kobe Beef for Hillary’s entourage?
Most cattle are raised on land not suitable to beans, corn, grains, etc.
It's not that they haven't heard. It's that they're choosing to ignore it.
There's a growing body of evidence to prove that global climate fluctuations are a function and product of solar activity, but the researchers are being hamstrung by lack of funding and a well-funded opposition trying to prevent their research from becoming public.
First they do this to shift you from meat to beans. Then the UN limits your Irish bean soup to only 239 beans in a bowl.
“Some powerful initiatives already are cutting back food-related emissions. But as the data show, change must be widespread - across billions of meals - and the level of ambition must be in line with the scope of the climate challenge.”
Desalination facilities along the coasts of Africa, Use dripper technology and pipelines to move the water inland. Using this you can turn the Sahara into a garden paradise. We did it successfully in Israel with the Arava.
In addition, by moving fresh water inland, we can create new economies, pull people out of poverty and provide fresh water to millions.
Why is this so difficult? I figured this out in 10 minutes, and already have a plan to do it. Meanwhile, global scientists are aligning their research with left wing ideology. Kill their funding and their minds will change.
It is kind of impossible to halt “global warming”, regardless of what humanity may or may not do. The diets of all the various iterations of human beings, taken on average, embrace just about every combination and permutation of edible substances on the planet. Human beings are onmivores, neither exclusively herbivores nor carnivores.
Few species are ever exclusively one or the other.
Maybe we should go to a silicon-based biology and just consume rocks for dinner. (This last is a sarcastic, smart-aleck assertion, probably not practical in the greater scheme of things.)
“...it’s impossible to stop global warming.”
Cool then let’s all stop talking about it.
I would think that the no till method would substantially reduce emissions from the farming process
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