Meat is horrible
- Abstract
It may be delicious, but the evidence is accumulating that meat, particularly red meat, is just a disaster for the environment — and not so great for human beings, either.Agriculture today accounts for for one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions — posing one of the biggest challenges to countries desperately trying to curb the emissions that promote global warming. And half of those agriculture emissions come from livestock, which produce large amounts of methane, a short-lived but powerful greenhouse gas.
- Resource Type
- Magazine/newspaper article
- Author
- The Washington Post
- Resource URL
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/06/30/how-meat-is-destroying-the-planet-in-seven-charts/
- Date
- July 3, 2016
- Organization Type
- News
- Health and Human Impact
- Overview/general
- Climate and Environmental Impact
- Food/crops
- Emission Source
- Agriculture/forestry
- Solutions
- Climate mitigation/GHG reduction Sustainable agriculture/local food systems