Chaerin Park's List: Livestock Production

• Large-scale livestock operations provide most of the meat and meat products consumed around the world
• "Extensive livestock production plays a critical role in land degradation, climate change, water and biodiversity loss,"
• Expansion of livestock grazing land is also a leading cause of deforestation, especially in Latin America, he added. In the Amazon basin

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• Fossil energy is used for the production of feeds (land preparation, fertilizers, pesticides, harvesting, drying, etc.), their bulk transport (rail and/or sea freight), storage (ventilation), and processing (milling, mixing, extrusion, pelleting, etc.)
• fossil energy is needed for the movement of feeds from the storage to the animal pens; for control of the thermal environment (cooling, heating or ventilation); and for animal waste collection and treatment (solid separation, aerobic fermentation, drying, land applications, etc.).
• Transport of products (meat animals to abattoirs, milk to processing plants, eggs to storage), processing (slaughtering, pasteurization, manufacture of dairy products), storage and refrigerated transport also require fossil fuels.
• the distribution to the consumer and the final cooking process may also require expenditures of fossil fuels.

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• consider eating less meat as a way of combating global warming, says the UN's top climate scientist.
• meat production puts more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than transport.
• "The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has estimated that direct emissions from meat production account for about 18% of the world's total greenhouse gas emissions,
• main reason for suggesting people lower their consumption of meat is to reduce the number of animals in factory farms.

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• meat production was responsible for 18% of greenhouse gas emissions
• more than transport.

• Better management of animal waste in industrial production units,