Did you know that in their 2006 report, the United Nations stated that raising
animals for food generates more greenhouse gasses than all the cars and trucks in the world combined?
Not exact matches
Imposing a 50 % tax on antibiotics
for food animals could decrease global consumption by more than 30 %, and at the same time
generate revenues from $ 1.7 to 4.6 billion, which could be invested into research
for new antibiotics or improvements to farm hygiene.
Growing, processing, shipping, and preparing
food — particularly the kind Americans typically eat (and schools typically serve)-- requires huge amounts of energy and produces tons of waste:
Animal agriculture contributes nearly one - fifth of the greenhouse - gas emissions responsible
for climate change — 1 pound of beef
generates the equivalent of 36 pounds of carbon dioxide, according to researchers.
«The evidence is in... UN report shows that
animals raised
for food generate more greenhouse gases than all cars and trucks combined.»
Both farming and
food processing yield huge amounts of waste matter like
food peels, oil and
animal matter that can be biologically processed to produce gas that can be used
for heating homes,
for generating electricity as well as in a refined form used to power cars.