{"id":41014,"date":"2018-11-28T07:19:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T12:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41014"},"modified":"2018-11-28T07:19:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T12:19:41","slug":"meat-and-consequences-more-bad-news-for-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41014","title":{"rendered":"Meat and Consequences:\u00a0 More Bad News for Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/11\/28\/meat-and-consequences-more-bad-news-for-climate-change\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Meat and Consequences:\u00a0 More Bad News for Climate Change<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div id=\"attachment_107475\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107475\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/11\/5888675223_fc4eb7f158_z.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/11\/5888675223_fc4eb7f158_z.jpg 510x, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/11\/5888675223_fc4eb7f158_z-300x230.jpg 300x\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"391\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source Audrey |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Thanksgiving is quite a holiday.\u00a0 In one day, we manage to eat and enjoy 44 million turkeys, twice the number consumed at Christmas.\u00a0 Yes, vegetarians may live longer and vegans even more so, but the smell of a roasting turkey in the kitchen lingering in the nostrils, titillating appetites as friends and relations gather, is synonymous with Thanksgiving \u2014 a meal where it is politic to keep politics away from the table.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the news about our world cannot cease.\u00a0 The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/public.wmo.int\/en\/media\/press-release\/greenhouse-gas-levels-atmosphere-reach-new-record\">annual greenhouse gas bulletin<\/a>\u00a0issued by the World Meteorological Organization reports a new high in CO2 levels of 405.5 parts per million reached in 2017; it is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-46289829\">46 percent higher<\/a>\u00a0than preindustrial levels.\u00a0 The rising trend continues for on May 14, 2018, another\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.co2.earth\/daily-co2\">high of 412.60 ppm was recorded<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The enthusiastic consumption of meat in industrialized countries is one cause.\u00a0 The worst culprits are lamb, mutton and beef because sheep, goats and cattle are ruminants and their digestive systems release methane mostly through belching rather than the other end.\u00a0 Cattle emit so much greenhouse gas that if they were a country they\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/briefing\/2018\/10\/13\/why-people-in-rich-countries-are-eating-more-vegan-food\">\u201cwould be the planet\u2019s third largest greenhouse gas emitter.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 They produce an astounding 270,000 tonnes of emissions over their agricultural life cycle per tonne of protein, multiple times more than pork or poultry or eggs.\u00a0 Transferring our carnivorous instincts from beef to poultry reduces so much emissions as to be near as good as being vegetarian although not quite.<\/p>\n<p>Another way of imagining the effect is to translate a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greeneatz.com\/foods-carbon-footprint.html\">kilo of food sources into the number of car miles driven to produce the same emissions<\/a>.\u00a0 A kilo of beef equates to 63 miles.\u00a0 Eating chicken reduces this by 47 miles, rice by another 10, lentils by 4 more.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meat and Consequences:\u00a0 More Bad News for Climate Change Photo Source Audrey |\u00a0CC BY 2.0 Thanksgiving is quite a holiday.\u00a0 In one day, we manage to eat and enjoy 44 million turkeys, twice the number consumed at Christmas.\u00a0 Yes, vegetarians may live longer and vegans even more so, but the smell of a roasting turkey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20493,113,141,5493,8756,8005],"class_list":["post-41014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-arshad-khan","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-climate-change","tag-counterpunch","tag-meat","tag-meat-consumption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41015,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41014\/revisions\/41015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}