Animal Agriculture Is The Biggest Threat To The Environment

cutting down forests in Brazil, as well as setting wildfires in places like west Texas cause “carbons stored in trees” to escape. Individuals don't understand that in places like “Brazil,” deforestation causes more emissions than “all of the world's cars.” There are other forms of greenhouse gases as well; like “Methane” released from “Rice Farming, Petroleum drilling, and even cattle bleaching” (Friedman 35). Over “10 Billion” animals are raised for Factory Farms in the United states. Burning Fossil Fuels for fertilizer creates up to “41 million metric tons” of Carbon Dioxide. The Factory Farm industry contributes to air pollution by emitting Greenhouse Gases such as “Hydrogen Sulfide, Ammonia and Methane” (DoSomething Web). Factory Farms is something that can easily be changed by switching to smaller meat establishments, where the common public already expects the meat to come from.

It has also been estimated that animal agriculture is responsible for around 51% of all greenhouse gas emissions - more than all the cars, trucks, planes, trains, and ships in the world combined. One reason for this is the fact that over a third of all fossil fuels in the U.S. are used for animal transportation, relocation, and production. Aside from that, livestock also accounts for nearly 40% of all global methane emissions, and 65% of nitrous oxide emissions. Most of that methane is caused by factory farms feeding cows low-quality grains that they cannot properly digest - resulting in indigestion - causing large amounts of gas to enter the atmosphere.

In the science article, “Beef and Climate Change Collide”, Los Angeles Times argues that beef is unhealthy for planet Earth due to the released gases that contribute to climate change. They claim that the U.S. beef production uses twenty eight times for land and eleven times more water than any other types of meets. Beef production pumps up five times more planet warming gases into our atmosphere than chicken, or pork. Furthermore, developing nations raising cattle have significantly increased the amounts of gases they produce. These developing countries have increased fifty one percent from 1961-2010. Although gases from cattle have been increasing, U.S. beef industry claims that the U.S. create the least amount of greenhouse gases being

Introduction (Attention Step): What do you think is the greatest cause of emission pollution? What do you believe is harming our planet? Well if you guessed that fossil fuel emissions are the biggest emission polluters, then you are completely wrong (attention getter). Animal Agriculture is actually the number one Greenhouse Gas emitter in the planet. Yes, cow farts are destroying the environment. It sounds crazy, but ever since the mid 60’s, agriculture associations have been spreading across the Americas and dominated the industry. The most destructive of all Ag corps are Livestock Corporation. These associations include IBP, Conagra, Perdue, Farmland National Beef, Cargill, etc … Animal Agriculture is effecting every single person in this room because we all breathe in the same air, drink the same water, and eat the same (credibility). The buildup of Animal Agriculture is a great destruction to our planet and our species because it is creating

It’s often argued that cows are the main source of our Methane emission, giving a strong argument to reduce, or even stop, our consumption of meat. In all actuality, only about six percent to seven percent of all greenhouse

Manufacture of meat - laden co2 and methane, and requires alot water. Farm animals such as cow or goats is the largest producer of methane. When they digest their food, the FAO of the UN mentioned the meat production accounts for 18 global warming, bigger than on the contributions of the entire world's

Attention getter: According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United States, animal agriculture is a leading source of carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane emissions, the top three greenhouse gasses (FAO, 2006).

One of their arguments was that animal agriculture is responsible for things that impact the environment through air pollution. They mentioned that animal agriculture is responsible for more than 18 percent of greenhouse has emissions, thats more than the combines exhaust from all transportation. To also back up their argument they mentioned that livestock and their byproducts accounts for at least 32,000 millions tons of carbon dioxide per year, or 51 percent of all worldwide greenhouse gas remission. All of the carbon dioxide also adds to the air pollution. Another argument they presented was that animal agriculture takes up a lot of our water. To help their argument they states that fracking water use ranges from 70-140 billion gallons annually and animal agriculture water consumption ranges from 34-76 trillion gallons annually. A lot of this water is used to grow feed crop. Growing feed crops for livestock consumes 56 percent of water in the US. These are just some of the facts “Cowspiracy” had mentioned in their video to help us better understand why we should choose a plant-based diet instead of a animal-based

I was sitting through a lecture when my professor brought up the fact many (if not most) of the environmental issues the world faces is because of animal agriculture.

This movie documents why animal agriculture is the #1 contributor to greenhouse gases, the #1 environmental problem , the leading cause of rain forest destruction and habitat loss, creating massive amounts of untreated waste and using far more of our precious aquifers than if we all simply ate a plant-based diet.

The burning of fossil fuels for energy and agriculture are two of the biggest contributors to global warming, along with deforestation. Ruminant animals like cattle produce methane, which is a greenhouse gas about 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. The livestock sector is responsible for about 37% of human-caused methane emissions, and about 65% of human nitrous oxide emissions.Also, nearly a third of biodiversity loss to date has been linked to animal agriculture. Further amplifying water and air pollution, global livestock produce seven to nine times more sewage than humans, most of which is left untreated.

“Methane has been identified as a significant contributor to global warming. It is second to carbon dioxide in contribution to global warming and is said to be 15-20% of all greenhouse gas emissions.” (Yusuf, Noor, Abba, A. Hassan, & Din., 2012, p. 1). The majority of the greenhouse gases emitted in the agricultural sector came from livestock (Yusuf et al., 2012, p. 2). Studies have shown that “cows produce more greenhouse gases than the entire

While carbon dioxide continues to be the leading contributor to global warming, methane is estimated to be at least 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide (CO2), and its emissions have been increasing at roughly 6 parts per billion per year since 2006 (Nisbet et. al., 2014). Livestock produces 80 million tons of CH4

Everyone has heard of the conservation movement in order to save our planet from global warming by saving water and burning less fossil fuels but what about the raising of livestock? “Nitrous oxide that is produced by animal agriculture has a global warming potential 296 times greater than CO2 emissions per pound.” Due to the fear of being attacked by major meat and dairy corporations, many environmental organizations do not talk about animal agriculture being the leading cause of environmental destruction even though their entire mission is to help protect our planet. Raising animals for food is the true agent to global warming, and therefore, there needs to be an end to the overproduction and consumption of animal products for its immense

The impacts of livestock on global climate change are important to the health of the ecosystem because it causes the average global temperature to increase. Livestock contributes to the majority of methane emitted into the atmosphere because of the feces it produces. The growing population increase is not helpful to this matter because as a result, a demand of food arises. This demand for food also includes the demand for livestock because it is appropriate for the human diet. “Meat production is to double from 229 million tonnes in [2000] to 465 million tonnes in 2050” (McMichael et al. 1259). The methane emission rate is bound to increase because it is “dependent upon the population size of the [livestock], their productivity, and [handling system]” (Jose et al. 3).