Science. Rome. lb = pound = 0.45 kg. "The Rising Murder Count of Environmental Activists". "Sustainable Diets: What You Need to Know in 12 Charts". "A Global Assessment of the Water Footprint of Farm Animal Products". Earth Save International, Ranganathan, Janet & Waite, Richard. November 25, 2014, "What is a dead zone?" 326, 716 (2009). Minneapolis, MN: Langdon Street, 2013. Vaidyanathan, Sayathri. 1 gallon = 3.8 liters. Turkeys produce (.87 lbs. The Population Institute, Meat Eater: 18x as much as a vegan   [xvii], Robbins, John. New York Times. Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret is a groundbreaking feature-length environmental documentary following intrepid filmmaker Kip Andersen as he uncovers the most destructive industry facing the planet today – and investigates why the world’s leading environmental organizations are too afraid to talk about it.. "Meat and Animal Feed". The Alliance for Global Conservation estimates 36 percent of all species on our planet are in danger of extinction. UN News Centre. Print. of waste per day x 7.84 million sheep and goats, -Turkeys, .87 lbs. Less Meat, and Taking Baby Steps Won’t Work. "Quantifying Threats to Imperiled Species in the United States". (USDA)”http://www.worldwatch.org/fire-grill-mouthwatering-red-white-and-green-july-4th. Scientific American (New), Butler, Rhett. (many of these issues are irreversible in our lifetime)–all part of the task of basic but thorough environmental scientific assessment, perhaps beyond the scope of livestock researchers/proponents for this one report, but the critical connection and relevance are vital should have been mentioned, nevertheless.It is quite clear by this report, which presents a filtered and quite limited view of the role of livestock in anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and global depletion, that our team should focus our attention on whythere is suppression of information, lack of clarity, or elucidation of facts by our leaders related to the overarching problem of animal based agriculture as a component of food choice–and then how to swiftly correct this. Annenberg Learner, "Impact of habitat loss on species". (New), Shindell, Drew T, et al. The Guardian. Based on rough averages of water at .5-1 gallon (.75 gallons) x 7.5011 billion = 5.626 billion gallons of water and 7,605 metric tons of food produced per minute = 24.143 billion pounds of food per day. (New), "Water Content of Things: Data Table 19". “Livestock and Climate Change: What if the key actors in climate change were pigs, chickens and cows?”, Goodland, Robert & Anhang, Jeff. "10 Rainforest Facts for 2017". The Guardian. (New). UN: Food and Argriculture Organization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A groundbreaking feature-length environmental documentary following intrepid filmmaker Kip Andersen as he uncovers the most destructive industry facing the planet today – and investigates why the world’s leading environmental organizations are too afraid to talk about it. "A Leading Cause of Everything: One Industry That Is Destroying Our Planet and Our Ability to Thrive on It". Water Education Foundation. USDA. National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Facts, Butler, Rhett. [xx] The amount of water, land and fuel used for differing diets varies greatly from the types of foods consumed, amount consumed and the geographical region where the food was raised. What does this mean for us? "Overfishing: a threat to marine biodiversity". "How much do we eat, anyway?" September 2015, Hicks, Cheryl. Save the Amazon.org, "What is Deforestation?" A scientific look at the reasons we’re so sick, who’s responsible for feeding us the wrong information and how we can use whole-food, plant-based nutrition to take control of our health. A CAFO with 1000 animal units of turkeys produces a waste load comparable to a city of 87,700 people. Shark Savers, "Sharks at Risk". UN News Centre. If you are already registered, you can login to your account area and view your own specific Ethical Impact Calculator. The World Conservation Union reported in 2010 that “most of the world’s endangered or threatened species” on their Red List (which lists the species that are most endangered) are suffering habitat loss due to livestock—not due to agriculture but to livestock. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. August 4, 2014, Eldredge, Niles. Free from Harm. 5, McBride, William D., Mathews Jr., Kenneth. Oppenlander, Richard A. based off 1lb of waste per 1sqft at 1.4 billion tons. 110. Unit 9: Biodiversity Decline// Section 7: Habitat Loss: Causes and Consequences". Sign up with your email address to receive news and updates from A.U.M. 2009), and manages land use changes (LUC) with admitted “uncertainty” and under-counting/reporting, 2    ultimately defers to a separate category for reporting of greenhouse gas emissions related to “deforestation” (20% of global GHG emissions per UN-REDD), of which livestock and feed crops play a significant role, needing to be added to direct emissions (80% of Amazonian rainforest deforestation and degradation, and destruction of Cerrado savanna since 1970 has been due to expansion for cattle, with another 10% loss due to planting crops to feed them and other livestock), 3    the global warming potential (GWP) for methane used in this report was from IPCC 2007, which was 21 at 100 years. Films & Media. The Telegraph. 24 September, 2013, Evans-Pritchard, Ambrose. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. International Energy Agency. Broiler Chickens produce (.5 x 1.74 b.) Iowa State University 2012, "The carbon foodprint of five diets compared". The US lower 48 states represents 1.9 billion acres. 4th Quarter 2012, http://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPURL.cgi?Dockey=901V0100.txt, http://comfortablyunaware.com/blog/biodiversity-and-food-choice-a-clarification/, 70-91% of that degradation for the livestock industry, http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu/docs/002-186/002-186.html, http://www.un.org/en/events/desertification_decade/whynow.shtml. Mongabay. September, 2014, Zuraw, Lydia. "Give up dairy products to beat cancer". 8 (Aug., 1998) pp. 2016, Stone, Dan. Goodland, R Anhang, J. Vol. Ammonia is the most potent form of nitrogen that triggers algae blooms and causes fish kills in coastal waters. February 2017(New), Bellantonio, Marisa, et al. "A Review of Antibiotic Use in Food Animals: Perspective, Policy, and Potential". The World Bank, "Global livestock production systems". "Food Facts: How Much Water Does it Take to Produce...?" April 2014, Friedrich, Bruce. "The Sixth Extinction". "10 Rainforest Facts for 2017". 1    there was no consideration of the effects of raising livestock on continued warming, acidification, deoxygenation and therefore diminished climate regulatory mechanisms of our oceans or time lines related to potential detrimental effects on the oxygen-nitrogen-carbon dioxide cycling capacities. "Wedge wolf pack will be killed because of its increasing beef consumption". Findings and recommendations for future farming. The Encyclopedia of Earth. — which equals 20.36 pounds of CO2 Eq saved per day. This free calorie, portion, and macro calculator from Precision Nutrition can help you achieve the results you want… more easily than ever before. United Nations Environment Programme, "General situation of world fish stocks". "Overgrazing". (New), Shah, Anup. *pigs are raised twice per year, (a total of 148.3 million per year) so on any given day in the United States there are about 74 million pigs. That’s ONE TENTH of Cowspiracy’s original claim! Log In Sign Up. Where Is It All Going?" Dec. 16, 2013 (New), Thornton, Phillip, et al. x 74.0 m.) = 1.036 billion lbs. The Huffington Post. 20 October 2015, Zielinski, Sarah. 19 June 2015. BioScience. – 45lbs of grain saved per day: Grain: multiply ounces of each meat consumed daily per person by the feed conversion factor for each animal. USDA: Natural Resources Conservation Service. Food Choice and Sustainability: Why Buying Local, Eating Less Meat, and Taking Baby Steps Won’t Work. 111 No. Pacific Institute. Chapter 4: More and Cleaner Water”. Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret - 2015 ‧ Documentary ‧ 1h 31m - 13+Follow the shocking, yet humorous, journey of an aspiring environmentalist, as he daringly seeks to find the real solution to the most pressing environmental issues and true path to sustainability.48 questions with time stamps Shocking Cowspiracy Facts & Statistics . Food Choice and Sustainability: Why Buying Local, Eating Less Meat, and Taking Baby Steps Won’t Work. Scientific American, Butler, Rhett. Cowspiracy – Facts & Figures Cowspiracy. About the Film. "Do We Eat Too Much Meat?" For the Center for Biological Diversity. Global Agriculture. January 2011, Gould, Skye & Friedman, Lauren F. "The countries where people eat the most meat". UNICEF. 3 November 2006, Roach, John. Dec. 16, 2013, "Risk Management Evaluation for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations". "Official statistics understate global fish catch, new estimate concludes". "The experts interviewed in the film seem to be vegan and have little knowledge or understanding of agriculture or the environment, especially with regards to raising cattle. Nutrition Facts per bushel = 3,150 dry soybeans per acre, Soybeans protein content (dry) is 163.44 grams per pound, The protein content per acre of soybeans is 163.44 g x 3,150 lb. "The Triple Whopper Environmental Impact of Global Meat Production". Sister of Notre Dame de Namur, "The USDA's War on Wildlife". Ive posted the text from Cowspiracy Facts :"51% of all worldwide greenhouse gas emissions are from livestock their byproducts" to several relevant sub-reddits and I've received several replies so far with information contradicting these numbers and I need help deciphering this. 3    there is no discussion, in an overview sense, to provide clarity regarding the component this happens to represent in livestock’s role, or food choice for that matter, in our current state of un-sustainability and the interrelated issues we face–freshwater scarcity, collapse of sea life oceanic ecosystems, unprecedented extinctions and loss of biodiversity, food security and agricultural land use inefficiencies, implications in human health and disease, rising health care costs and loss of productivity, economic risk factors, questions of social justice and implications regarding future generations, etc. The New York Times. x 77.0 m.) = 66.99 million lbs. January 2017, Butler, Rhett A. Marine Policy. Minneapolis, MN : Langdon Street, 2013. Miller, Scot M, et al. Cowspiracy co-director Keegan Kuhn responds to criticisms given to the film. Filmmaker Kip Andersen uncovers the secret to preventing and even reversing chronic diseases, and he investigates why the December 2010, "2009 Summary Report on Antimicrobials Sold or Distributed for Use in Food-Producing Animals". EPA. The average US vehicle gas tank can hold about 16 gallons of gas. "Beef: Diverting resources to environmentally destructive uses". ” — Louie Psihoyos, Oscar-Winning Director of "The Cove" “ A documentary that will rock and inspire the environmental movement. April 2009, Butler, Rhett A. National Geographic: Ocean Views. for their rights as sentient beings. Johnny's Selected Seeds, Schwab, Denise, et al. United States Environmental Protection Agency (new), Ross, Phillip. Meatonomic$: The Bizarre Economics of Meat and Dairy. 4th Quarter 2012 (New), "S. 3880 (109th): Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act". Award-winning filmmaker Michal Siewierski on his three-year journey to expose the truth about our food choices. Vegan.com December 2012, (NOTE. Most organizations that associate their work with species and ecosystem/biodiversity concerns as well as the scientific community as a whole believe that the six main threats to our oceans are climate change, overfishing, predator loss, pollution, destruction of habitat, and bycatch, (“bykill”). Glaser, Christine, et al. Cowspiracy. 18 October 2013, Evans-Pritchard, Ambrose. Number 89. July 2014. nation's leading health organizations doesn't want people to know about it. = 870 million lbs. There are many other factors to consider in terms of level of concern we should have regarding the role of food choice in climate change, global depletion in general, and certain applicable time lines as represented (or misrepresented) by the United Nations or any other governing or research institution. Based on data from 2000, the World Resources Institute estimated the greenhouse gas contribution of all agriculture at just 13.8%, of which “livestock and manure” contribute only 5.1% (based on CO2 equivalent calculations). However the BLM considers the amount of wild horses and burros on the range too populated and will attempt to remove 40,000 to bring the level back to what is considered by the BLM the 'acceptable level'. 71:818-826, "Water footprint of crop and animal products: a comparison". The Wildlife News. Robbins, John. We choose to use in the film the widely cited conservative number of 2500 gallons per pound of US beef from Dr. George Borgstrom, Chairman of Food Science and Human Nutrition Dept of College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Michigan State University, "Impacts on Demand for and Quality of land and Water." "Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services". USDA: Economic Research Service. WWF Global. January 2016 (New), Pauly, Daniel & Zeller, Dirk. March 2014, Goldenberg, Suzanne. Nature Communications. USDA: Natural Resources Conservation Service. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, "What Causes Ocean 'Dead Zones'?" U.S. Energy Information Administration. "Anthropegnic emissions of methane in the United States". FAO. However, the GWP of methane is actually 86 GWP at 20 years, 4    the report gave no consideration to carbon sequestration potential lost on land now used for livestock and feed production, which should have been considered as emissions (45% of the land mass on Earth now used by livestock and crops to feed them–International Livestock Research Institute), 5    Consideration should be given to the fact that the lead authors have potential bias in this report; Pierre Gerber is the Livestock Policy Officer of the FAO and Henning Steinfeld is Chief, Livestock Information of the Livestock Sector Policy Branch of the FAO. "Brazilian beef giant announces moratorium on rainforest beef". Vol. "How humans are driving the sixth mass extinction". UN: Food and Agriculture Oragnization, "Soy Agriculture in the Amazon Basin". World Resources Institute. Vol. Energy Global. Independent. International Livestock Research Institute. April 2012, Barnard, M.D, Neal. The truth about the environmental impacts of livestock production, known to some as "animal agriculture. The amount of water used to produce 1lb. 7. Food Choice and Sustainability: Why Buying Local, Eating Less Meat, and Taking Baby Steps Won’t Work. Vol. 33 June 2014. "Pink Slime and the Legal History of Food Disparagement". The Huffington Post Blog. "Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data". U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. "Allan Savory: Myth and Reality". November 2011, Animal agriculture contributes to species extinction in many ways. "Study claims meat creates half of all greenhouse gases". "Amazon Destruction". September 2003. vol 78. no 3 660S-663S. October 2016 (New), Nuwer, Rachel. Shrink That Footprint, Scarborough, Peter, et al. "Biodiversity conservation: The key is reducing meat consumption". Fisheries". "Harvesting the Biosphere: The Human Impact". March 31, 2011, Tilman, David & Clark, Michael. June 2014, Davidson, Garry. The widespread use of pesticides, herbicides and chemical fertilizers used in the production of feed crops often interferes with the reproductive systems of animals and poison waterways. Oppenlander, Richard A. Fulton, Julian, et al. Common Dreams: Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community. Rough average of 150 billion gallons CH4 globally per day. Dairy Cows produce (120 lbs. The Guardian. Making a Difference With Every Bite: The Power of the Fork!". Mongabay.com. The Vegan Calculator (New), Ogden, Lillie. Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret is a 2014 documentary film which explores the impact of animal agriculture on the environment, and investigates the policies of a few environmental organizations on this issue. "To protect farm animals from cruelty", Mercy for Animals Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Sudies: Global Forest Atlas (New), "The Disappearing Rainforests". June 2016 (New), "About Sister Dorothy Stang". United States Environmental Protection Agency. The 2014/2015 movie by that name—“The Film That Environmental Organizations Don’t Want You to See,” according to its website—has uncovered an immense conspiracy between governments and the world’s biggest environmental organizations, to deceive the public about the principal … Minneapolis, MN : Langdon Street, 2013. As of August 2012, the 2004 Global Species Assessment was the most recent empirical data on global extinction rates, based on birds, mammals, and amphibians. Science Advances. "Facts on Animal Farming and the Environment". [iii] 1 burger = 2 months showering: based on taking a 4-minute daily shower with a 2.5 gpm shower head. Pigs produce (14 lbs. The Guardian. ), provides no consideration for increased indirect radiative effects of methane on atmospheric aerosols and particulate capture related to smog (Shindell et al. 28 October, 2015, Geetanjali, Chauhan, et al. USDA: Economic Research Service. "How humans are driving the sixth mass extinction". 2003, Tabuchi, Hiroko, Rigny, Claire & White, Jeremy. 2012, Pala, Christopher. "Brazilian faces retrial over murder of environmental activist nun in Amazon". John Hopkins Center for a Liveable Future. Science. "Major Uses of Land in the United States, 2007". June 2013, Butler, Rhett. August 2016, "Current World Population". Volume 125. The science and research done on the true impacts of animal agriculture is always growing. Print. October 23, 2015. Vol. 2    the report gave no account for anthropogenic greenhouse gases generated by agricultural systems related to extraction or raising and eating fish–fuel, refrigeration, packaging, processing, transportation, etc. Mongabay.com. [ii] Although there are Cornell studies citing the water consumption of the US livestock industry at over 66 trillion gallons every year, we decided to go with a much more conservative figure of 34 trillion gallons based off the 2005 USGS figures putting the US total consumptive water use at 76 trillion gallons annually (non-consumptive is for thermoelectric and hydroelectric use that is typically returned directly back to its source immediately). Extensive sourced statistics and visuals on the effects of animal agriculture on greenhouse gases, water resources, land use, waste and pollution, health of our ecosystems, and human health. Cowspiracy Meat Animal Agriculture Climate Environment Press J to jump to the feed. Pimentel, David, et al. *Total manure produced in one year is 3.475 trillion lbs. October 23, 2015. [xvi]  $414 billion of externalized costs breaks down to: $314 billion in health-care costs, $38 billion in subsides, $37 billion in environmental costs, $21 billion in cruelty costs, $4 billion in fishing-related costs. Wordlist. Secretariat of the Convention of Biological Diversity. Public Health Reports 2012 Jan-Feb; 127 (1): 4-22, 7,605 metric tons of food produced per minute, Holt-Giménez, Eric. April 2016, "How much have you saved?" [.i] Some have challenged that the 18% of GHG emissions from animal ag cannot be compared to the 13% of GHG for transportation emissions because it does not take into consideration the full lifecycle analysis of the transportation industry. November 2, 2006, Montaigne, Fen. Mongabay.com. Chest Sculpting. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/food-choice-and-sustainability-richard-a-oppenlander/1117327379?ean=9781626524354. "The Ultimate Mystery Meat: Exposing the Secrets Behind Burger King and Global Meat Production". of waste per day x 9.32 million dairy cows, [vi] Enough waste to cover, etc: based on 1 pound of waste per 1 square foot of land, “Animal farms produce as much manure as small and medium sized cities. United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Mood, A & Brooke, P. "Estimating the Number of Fish Caught in Global Fishing Each Year". Smithsonian.com. Animal agriculture uses 55 percent of the water in the U.S. "Cowspiracy" is the longest overdue film; it is audacious, poignant and funny. The claim that a pound of beef takes only 441 gallons of water to produce is very different than the claim in Cowspiracy that a 1/3rd pound hamburger takes 660 gallons. The USDA says that agriculture is responsible for 80-90 percent of US water consumption and growing the feed crops for livestock consumes 56% of that water, bringing the total water consumption of the livestock industry to 34 trillion gallons. Beef Cow-Calf Farms". of waste per day x 83.68 million cows, -Calves, 30 lbs.
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