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Livestock a major threat to environment |
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The United Nations Food & Agriculture Organisation has just issued
(November 29) a stunning report on global warming. Livestock production
is responsible for: more climate change gasses than all the motor
vehicles in the world; 70 per cent of the Amazon deforestation; 64 per
cent of all the acid rain-producing ammonia; and 15 out of the 24 vast
global ecosystems that are in decline can blame livestock.
More than this, livestock production is at the heart of almost every
other environmental catastrophe confronting the planet – rain forest
destruction, spreading deserts, loss of fresh water, air and water
pollution, acid rain and soil erosion.
http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000448/index.html
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