Title: The Greenhouse Hamburger
Author: Nathan Fiala
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The estimated emissions from food production incorporate the assumption that 1,000 kilograms of carbon per hectare per year would have been absorbed by forests or other vegetation if the land had not been cleared for annual food crops or fodder. To refrigerate ate and transport the vegetable to an American dinner a table generates another 2 ounces of CO2 equivalent of 3.2 ounces. The foods we ear had gotten a pass in the discussion. The meat in them cause more greenhouse gases CO2, methane, nitrous oxide, and to spew into the atmosphere than either transportation or industry
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The livestock farming produces vast amounts of greenhouse gas, to say nothing of the inefficient conversion of plant protein into good meat. The Dutch scientist thinks a stunt might help overcome the yuk factor at the dinner table. He'd like a celebrity chef to make a hamburger and a "famous actress" to eat it. Burgers are only the first of many complicated steps in hydroponic meat production. The engineering feat of producing hamburger meat, essentially ground-up muscle fiber, is nowhere near as complex a task as crafting a whole cut of muscle in all its textured complexity -- be it chicken for PETA's context, or anything else.
So What?
Can reduce the effects of food production on planetary climate. To some degree, after all, our diets are a choise. By choosing more wisely, we can make a difference. Eating locally produced food, for instance, can reduce the need for transport though food inefficiently shipped in small batches on trucks from nearby farms can turn out to save surprisingly little in greenhouse emissions. We should inform people about this information so that we can lower our diets with meat. We should reduce the amounts of meat that we eat, and reduce the amounts of CO2 coming from cows. The only way the people could start doing that, is if people like us inform them and educate them. Improving waste manage and farming practices could help reduce the "Carbon Footprint", and make a difference. That's why we should educate and inform. That will make a difference in the world and make it a better place for the ecosystem, animals, and humans.
Say Who?
Nathan Fiala
What If?
Annual beef consumption per capital varies from 120 pounds in Argentina and 92 pounds in the U.S. to only a pound in the small eastern European country of Moldova; the average is about 22 pounds per person per year.
This Remind Me Of?
Eating locally produced food, for instance, can reduce the need for transport though food inefficiently shipped in small batches on trucks from nearby farms can turn out to save surprisingly little in greenhouse emissions
Author: Nathan Fiala
A:
- Most of us are aware that our cars, our coal generated electric power and even our cement factories adversely affect the environment
- Greenhouse gases trap solar energy, thereby warming the earth's surface
- Gases vary in greenhouse potency, every greenhouse gas is usually expressed as an amount of CO2 with the same global warming potential
- The current production levels of meat contribute between 14% & 22% of the 36 billion tons of "CO2 equivalent" greenhouse gases the world produces every year
- Producing half a pound of hamburger for someone's lunch a patty of meat the size of two decks of cards releases
- as much greenhouse gas into the atmosphere as driving a 3,000 pound car nearly 10 miles
- An ecological economist then at the University of East Anglia in England, found that,
- depending on the production method, cows emit between 2.5 and 4.7 ounces of methane for each pound of beef they produce
- Methane has roughly 23 times the global warming potential of CO2, those emissions are the equivalent of releasing between 3.6& 6.8 poulds of CO2 into the atmosphere for each pound
- concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) system, generates the equivalent of 14.8 pounds of CO2 pound for pound,
- more than 36x the CO2-equivalent greenhouse gas emitted by producing asparagus
- producing a pound of pork generates the equivalent of 3.8 pounds of CO2; a pound of chicken generates 1.1 pounds of CO2-equivalent greenhouse gases
- Eating locally produced food, for instance,
- can reduce the need for transport though food inefficiently shipped in small batches on trucks from nearby farms
- can turn out to save surprisingly little in greenhouse emissions
- Annual beef consumption per capital varies from 120 pounds in Argentina and 92 pounds in the U.S.
- to only a pound in the small eastern European country of Moldova; the average is about 22 pounds per person per year
B:
The estimated emissions from food production incorporate the assumption that 1,000 kilograms of carbon per hectare per year would have been absorbed by forests or other vegetation if the land had not been cleared for annual food crops or fodder. To refrigerate ate and transport the vegetable to an American dinner a table generates another 2 ounces of CO2 equivalent of 3.2 ounces. The foods we ear had gotten a pass in the discussion. The meat in them cause more greenhouse gases CO2, methane, nitrous oxide, and to spew into the atmosphere than either transportation or industry
C:
The livestock farming produces vast amounts of greenhouse gas, to say nothing of the inefficient conversion of plant protein into good meat. The Dutch scientist thinks a stunt might help overcome the yuk factor at the dinner table. He'd like a celebrity chef to make a hamburger and a "famous actress" to eat it. Burgers are only the first of many complicated steps in hydroponic meat production. The engineering feat of producing hamburger meat, essentially ground-up muscle fiber, is nowhere near as complex a task as crafting a whole cut of muscle in all its textured complexity -- be it chicken for PETA's context, or anything else.
So What?
Can reduce the effects of food production on planetary climate. To some degree, after all, our diets are a choise. By choosing more wisely, we can make a difference. Eating locally produced food, for instance, can reduce the need for transport though food inefficiently shipped in small batches on trucks from nearby farms can turn out to save surprisingly little in greenhouse emissions. We should inform people about this information so that we can lower our diets with meat. We should reduce the amounts of meat that we eat, and reduce the amounts of CO2 coming from cows. The only way the people could start doing that, is if people like us inform them and educate them. Improving waste manage and farming practices could help reduce the "Carbon Footprint", and make a difference. That's why we should educate and inform. That will make a difference in the world and make it a better place for the ecosystem, animals, and humans.
Say Who?
Nathan Fiala
What If?
Annual beef consumption per capital varies from 120 pounds in Argentina and 92 pounds in the U.S. to only a pound in the small eastern European country of Moldova; the average is about 22 pounds per person per year.
This Remind Me Of?
Eating locally produced food, for instance, can reduce the need for transport though food inefficiently shipped in small batches on trucks from nearby farms can turn out to save surprisingly little in greenhouse emissions