Going vegan won’t help the planet? Not worth it for the climate? All of these notions are based on the EPA’s figures for livestock emissions. Why are they drastically different than the FAO’s reports? Time to investigate.
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EPA breakdown of Emissions:
https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emissions
Full EPA Report:
https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2019-04/documents/us-ghg-inventory-2019-main-text.pdf
Environmental Working Group Report:
https://www.ewg.org/meateatersguide/a-meat-eaters-guide-to-climate-change-health-what-you-eat-matters/climate-and-environmental-impacts/
Production Numbers:
Beef – 27 billion lbs: https://beef2live.com/story-beef-production-year-0-107550
Chicken – 48 billion lbs: https://www.meatinstitute.org/index.php?ht=d/sp/i/47465/pid/47465
Milk – 151 billion lbs: 215 billion lbs x 0.70 because 30% is made into cheese: https://milk.procon.org/view.answers.php?questionID=000843
Cheese- 13 billion lbs: https://brownfieldagnews.com/news/usda-2018-cheese-production-tops-13-billion-lbs/
Pork – 27 billion lbs: https://www.porkbusiness.com/article/us-pork-producers-are-open-business-kalo-says
Farmed Fish – 10 billion lbs: https://www.noaa.gov/media-release/american-seafood-industry-steadily-increases-its-footprint
Eggs – 13 billion lbs: No production weight publicized, consumption x population: https://www.statista.com/statistics/183678/per-capita-consumption-of-eggs-in-the-us-since-2000/
Turkey – 6 billion lbs: https://www.ers.usda.gov/newsroom/trending-topics/turkey-sector-background-statistics/
Lamb – 0.4 billion lbs: Based off consumption x population:
https://www.agweek.com/business/agriculture/4441308-good-news-lamb-producers-demand-lamb-grows
Spreadsheet on Emissions Math:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OZ_ix_ISqLIpXcGpqcYRuUmkxQ_qr48UtPH_lWV9rAk/edit?usp=sharing
Emissions of Other Countries:
https://www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/science-and-impacts/science/each-countrys-share-of-co2.html
FAO Beef Emissions:
http://www.fao.org/3/i3461e/i3461e03.pdf
FAO GLEAM:
http://www.fao.org/gleam/model-description/en/
Global Warming Potential of Methane: https://www3.epa.gov/ttn/chief/conference/ei12/green/present/mangino.pdf
Sequestration of Trees Paper:
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R40562.pdf
Spreadsheet on Sequestration Math:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x3RM4-lYuCvnQ4aM_3eFbiy6TRKw_RGxZepgPAgmstY/edit?usp=sharing
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