Meat Eating and Global Warming

Meat Eating and Global Warming

According to the Food & Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, livestock contribute more to global warming than transport, producing 18% of all global greenhouse gas emissions.

• Climate Change News - extracts from recent issues of IVU Online News

Some links to further information from IVU Member Organisations:

• from EarthSave International, USA:
  A New Global Warming Strategy
  A global warming report from Down Under: Diet and the atmosphere
  
  
• from the Swiss Vegetarian Society and EVU - Quotes from different international organisations about climate change
  Climate change and a responsible diet
  Klimaschutz durch verantwortungsbewusste Ernährung (Deutsch)
  Le végétarisme pour lutter activement en faveur du climat (Français)
  Zaščita podnebja s pomočjo odgovornega prehranjevanja (Slovenska)
  
  
• from the Toronto Vegetarian Association:
  Climate change: The inconvenient truth about what we eat
  
  
• from the Vegan Society UK:
  Global Warming - The Livestock Connection
  Vegans compare Footprints with Greens (word file press release, Sep.07)
  
  
• from Farm Animal Reform Movement, USA:
  Stop Global Warming - One Bite at a Time (website)
  
  
• from Vegetarian Action, South Australia:
  The Great Green Quiz
  
  
• from the Vegetarian Society UK:
  Why it's Green to Go Vegetarian

- and more links from elsewhere - thanks to the Boston Vegetarian Society, VUNA, JVNA, UVE (Spain) and the Vegetarian Society (Singapore):

• anotherinconvenienttruth.org (website)
• Another Inconvenient Truth: Meat is a Global Warming Issue - emagazine.com
• Burp vaccine cuts greenhouse gas emissions - New Scientist
• "Comer carne, ¿es sostenible?" (Español) - World Watch Institute magazine (PDF)
• Cows, pigs and sheep: Environment’s greatest threats? - New Scientist
  
• Cut global warming by becoming vegetarian - PhysOrg.com
• Diet, Energy and Global Warming - Earth Interactions
• Eating meat worse for planet than driving, animal rights groups say - International Herald Tribune
  
• Emission of methane from livestock - Northern Territories University (Australia)
• Fight Global Warming by Going Vegetarian - goveg.com
• 'Go veg' to fight global warming: To help our planet, don't have a cow - By Dan Brook & Richard H. Schwartz, JTA
  
• Humans' beef with livestock: a warmer planet - Christian Science Monitor
• In the modern world, it is impossible to reconcile a carnivorous diet with environmental responsibility - The Aquarian
• Inhibitors could cut livestock methane - University of Nebraska-Lincoln (USA)
  
• Meat-Eaters Aiding Global Warming? - ABC News
• Meet Daisy the cow – global climate’s enemy number one - From the BBC – some good information, but not veg-friendly
• Methane emissions - Canadian government
• On your plate - Greenpeace
• Rearing cattle produces more greenhouse gases than driving cars, UN report warns - UN News Centre
• Study: vegan diets healthier for planet, people than meat diets - the University of Chicago News Office
• The SUV in the Pantry - the Organic Consumers Association
• The Warming Globe and Us. It's More Than CO2 - by Dan Brook and Richard H. Schwartz / Dissident Voice, May 1st, 2007
  
• Where does methane come from? - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• Which causes more greenhouse gas emissions, rearing cattle or driving cars? - FAO Newsroom