Global Warming and Bio-Industry
“Vitro Meat: a healthy and tasty solution for global warming”
Benefits to the Vitro Meat product and technology
There are several unparalleled benefits to this Vitro Meat technology:
- Solves great environmental problems created by animal-based foods, ranging from run off of animal feces which pollutes our water sources, to the destruction of the rain forests for grazing land (also GLOBAL WARMING by methane in atmosphere from animal flatulence)
Livestock are responsible for 18 per cent of the greenhouse gases that, more than cars, planes and all other forms of transport put together.
Cow 'emissions' more damaging to planet than CO2 from cars
By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor
Published: 10 December 2006
Meet the world's top destroyer of the environment.
It is not the car, or the plane, or even George Bush: it is the cow. A United Nations report (see appendix D) has identified the world's rapidly growing herds of cattle as the greatest threat to the climate, forests and wildlife. And they are blamed for a host of other environmental crimes, from acid rain to the introduction of alien species, from producing deserts to creating dead zones in the oceans, from poisoning rivers and drinking water to destroying coral reefs. The 400-page report by the Food and Agricultural Organisation, entitled Livestock's Long Shadow, also surveys the damage done by sheep, chickens, pigs and goats. But in almost every case, the world's 1.5 billion cattle are most to blame. Livestock are responsible for 18 per cent of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, more than cars, planes and all other forms of transport put together. Burning fuel to produce fertiliser to grow feed, to produce meat and to transport it - and clearing vegetation for grazing - produces 9 per cent of all emissions of carbon dioxide, the most common greenhouse gas. And their wind and manure emit more than one third of emissions of another, methane, which warms the world 20 times faster than carbon dioxide. Livestock also produces more than 100 other polluting gases, including more than two-thirds of the world's emissions of ammonia, one of the main causes of acid rain. Ranching, the report adds, is "the major driver of deforestation" worldwide, and overgrazing is turning a fifth of all pastures and ranges into desert. Cows also soak up vast amounts of water: it takes a staggering 990 litres of water to produce one litre of milk. Wastes from feedlots and fertilisers used to grow their feed overnourish water, causing weeds to choke all other life. And the pesticides, antibiotics and hormones used to treat them get into drinking water and endanger human health. The pollution washes down to the sea, killing coral reefs and creating "dead zones" devoid of life. One is up to 21,000sqkm, in the Gulf of Mexico, where much of the waste from US beef production is carried down the Mississippi. The report concludes that, unless drastic changes are made, the massive damage done by livestock will more than double by 2050, as demand for meat increases.
New law sounds full of hot air
April 28, 2007
BARMY Euro MPs are demanding new laws to stop cows and sheep PARPING. Their call came after the UN said livestock emissions were a bigger threat to the planet than transport. The MEPs have asked the European Commission to “look again at the livestock question in direct connection with global warming”. The official EU declaration demands changes to animals’ diets, to capture gas emissions and recycle manure. They warned: “THE LIVESTOCK SECTOR PRESENTS THE greatest THREAT TO THE PLANET”The proposal will be looked at by the 27 member states.
The UN says livestock farming generates 18 per cent of greenhouse gases while transport accounts for 14 per cent.
The current Bio-Industry is the worst environmental polluter and the chief cause of GLOBAL WARMING – besides CO2. The Bio Industry also produces huge quantities of METHANE, which too is a major GREENHOUSE GAS. Elevated lebels of methane are found in particular around cattle farms, since the microbes digesting the feed in the cow rumen, produce and release methane. METHANE GAS is harmful to the environment, because , like CO2, it contributes to the GREENHAUSE EFFECT, In resent years, the quantity of harmful bio-industry-produced METHANE present in the atmosohere has MORE THAN DOUBLED.
Eating beef 'is less green than driving'
Last Updated: 1:48am BST 23/07/2007
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/19/nbeef119.xml
Producing 2.2lb of beef generates as much greenhouse gas as driving a car non-stop for three hours, it was claimed yesterday.
Japanese scientists used a range of data to calculate the environmental impact of a single purchase of beef.
Taking into account all the processes involved, they said, four average sized steaks generated greenhouse gases with a warming potential equivalent to 80.25lb of carbon dioxide.
This also consumed 169 megajoules of energy.
That means that 2.2lb of beef is responsible for greenhouse gas emissions which have the same effect as the carbon dioxide released by an ordinary car travelling at 50 miles per hour for 155 miles, a journey lasting three hours. The amount of energy consumed would light a 100-watt bulb for 20 days.
Most of the greenhouse gas emissions are in the form of methane released from the animals' digestive systems, New Scientist magazine reported.
But more than two thirds of the energy used goes towards producing and transporting cattle feed, said the study, which was led by Akifumi Ogino from the National Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science in Tsukuba, Japan.
The United Nations’ 2006
State of the Future:
“If beef or other animal meat can be manufactured from stem cells, land, water grains and other resources can be saved. People may dislike the idea of producing meat or a part of an animal, in laboratories or factories. The meat industry may object to the idea fearing that their best quality beef is copied and mass-produced. However, with limited land and water, and over-increasing demand for animal proteins, stem cell research for mass-production of meat should be given a serious thought” (p.2-18).
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