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Eating Less Meat May Help Reduce Gas Emissions
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
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And I am not talking about the gas that comes from the exhaust of our cars…we are talking about livestock! The medical journal, The Lancet, has recently launched a scientific series on Energy and Health talking about this subject. Part of the research from this series reveals that a realistic reduction of only 10% of the world-wide meat consumption can help drop livestock production of greenhouse gas emissions caused by the methane flatulence from the animals. The animals mentioned were cows, sheep and goats.The paper indicates that world-wide meat consumption is 100g per person per day with a ten-fold variation between the lower-consuming and higher-consuming populations. And the trend of eating more meat has increased with time; for instance, Chinese people are now consuming double the amount of meat they were ten years ago.
Agriculture contributes almost 25% of the greenhouse pollution and 80% of that comes from the potent methane and nitrous oxide from livestock.
Ivelisse, BS, LD/N
Nutrition Specialist
Take care, take control and Enjoy!
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