Animal gases (From The Argus)
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Animal gases
5:05pm Tuesday 15th June 2010 in Your Argus
The Worldwatch Institute says that meat and diary production accounts for half of total human-made greenhouse gas emissions.
Animals’ digestive processes and slurry release methane, which is 23 times more potent than carbon dioxide.
Huge areas of the Amazon rainforest are cut down to create cattle grazing land and land to grow animal feed crops. Animal manure decomposition and fertilisers for the vast amounts of animal feed crops create nitrous oxide gas, which is a 296 times more potent than carbon dioxide.
Mark Richards
Halland Road, Brighton
Comments(3)
puddingandpi
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12:11pm Wed 16 Jun 10
No, I know what he's on about. We should all eat less meat as the production of meat isn't good for the planet & too much isn't good for humans either. If it means you can keep your car & fly on holiday, would you go meat-free one day a week?
Personally, I think the horse-racing industry contributes a massive amount to climate change & it should be scaled down if not stopped altogether. We could always eat the spare horses.
Fight Back
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6:34pm Wed 16 Jun 10
NotGreen says...
11:01pm Tue 15 Jun 10