Would you stop eating Beef to save the planet?

Would you stop eating beef  to save the planet? SciGuy Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
Would you stop eating meat to save the planet?

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I am not saying people should give up meat. What I am saying is I am sick and tired of people telling me that we have to have wind turbines in Cape Vincent, or anywhere else for that matter, to “save the planet”. Wind turbines destroy wild life, wetlands and habitat WIND TURBINES ARE NOT “GREEN.” Wind turbines are destroying our earth in the name of green, simply to feed a profit motivated goal. If people are so interested in shoving turbines down our throats, because they are concerned about co2 gasses and the preservation of our earth, I suggest that they ~ give up beef. And for those of you whom I am sure will send me nasty comments don’t bother, I do help in a small way. I do not eat beef.

K.Muschell~~~~Would you stop eating meat to save the planet? SciGuy Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

A science blog with Eric Berger
Excerpts:
The conclusions of a new report released by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization are rather sobering. Among them:

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• Livestock now use 30 percent of the earth's entire land surface, mostly permanent pasture but also including 33 percent of the global arable land used to producing feed for livestock.

• Livestock generate 18 percent more greenhouse gas emissions as measured in CO2 equivalent than transportation.

• Livestock account for 9 percent of CO2 derived from human-related activities, but considerably larger portions of much more potent greenhouse gases: 65 percent of human-related nitrous oxide, and 37 percent of all human-induced methane.

• In Latin America some 70 percent of former forests in the Amazon have been turned over to grazing.

• Meat and dairy animals now account for about 20 percent of all terrestrial animal biomass.