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What About Meat? Changing Meat Production Practices to Grow Climate Stability
The meat we eat matters
This "conversation starter" addresses the effects of meat production and consumption on climate because domestic livestock accounts globally for about 18% of all anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. This number exceeds the emissions that all forms of global transportation -- all of the cars, trucks, trains, ships, and airplanes that move people and goods around the world.
The choices we make about how much meat we consume -- as well as the type of meet and the production practices – have the potential to greatly increase or reduce the impact of our meat consumption on global warming. For example, for the average US household in 1997, nearly 14% of the greenhouse gas emissions came from producing the food that was eaten. In the average US diet, red meat (beef and pork) and dairy comprised only 22% of calories consumed, but accounted for 57% of all US food-related greenhouse gas emissions.
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