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Multiple studies have found that increases in meat consumption are currently associated with human population growth and rising individual incomes or GDP, and therefore, the environmental impacts of meat production and consumption will increase unless current behaviours change. [8] [9] [10] [5]
Livestock's Long Shadow: Environmental Issues and Options is a United Nations report, released by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations on 29 November 2006, [1] that "aims to assess the full impact of the livestock sector on environmental problems, along with potential technical and policy approaches to mitigation". [1]
Similarly, an older study found that if 1.1 °C (2.0 °F) of warming occurs between 2005 and 2045 (rate comparable to hitting 2 °C (3.6 °F) by 2050), then under the current livestock management paradigm, global agricultural costs would increase by 3% (an estimated $145 billion), with the impact concentrated in pure pasturalist systems.
In The State’s letters to the editor, a reader writes how a new way of producing meat will positively affect the environment. Information literacy, voting and litter are also addressed. | Opinion.
What’s happening. Americans love meat. And despite a whole range of new plant-based alternatives that have hit the market, our appetite for pork, beef and poultry only seems to be growing ...
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Meat production and trade substantially increase risks for infectious diseases , including of pandemics, whether though contact with wild and farmed animals, or via husbandry's environmental impact. [97] [98] For example, avian influenza from poultry meat production is a threat to human health. [99]
Environmental effects of meat production. Add languages. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Redirect page. Redirect to: Environmental impacts of animal ...