Food and environment (0)

Food and environment
Brita Lodi
Tallinn University of Technology
Management of Environment
2015
MEAT INDUSTRY 
ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS
GREENHOUSEGASES
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WATER (USAGE, POLLUTION)
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LAND
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WASTE
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OCEANS
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RAINFORESTS
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WILDLIFE
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HUMANITY
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GREENHOUSE GASES
18 PER CENT OF GREENHOUSE GAS 
EMISSIONS ARE CAUSED BY ANIMAL  
AGRICULTURE
CARBONDIOXIDE
METHANE
NITROUS OXIDE
LIVESTOCK AND THEIR BYPRODUCTS ACCOUNT  
FOR AT LEAST 32,000 MILLION TONS OF CARBON  
DIOXIDE (CO2) PER YEAR , OR 51% OF ALL 
WORLDWIDE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS.
 
METHANE 
(and nitrous oxide)
 „THE MAIN SOURCES OF METHANE ARE THE 
ENTERIC FERMENTATION OF RUMINANTS 
AND RELEASES FROM STORED MANURE“
 
WASTE
EVERY M I N U T E, 3.5 MILLION KILOGRAMS 
OF MANURE ARE PRODUCED BY ANIMALS  
RAISED FOR FOOD IN THE US.
 
WATER 
20-33% OF ALL FRESH WATER 
CONSUMPTION IS USED IN ANIMAL 
AGRICULTURE.
 
HUMANITY
WE ARE CURRENTLY GROWING ENOUGH 
FOOD TO FEED 10 BILLION PEOPLE.
 
82% OF STARVING CHILDREN LIVE IN 
COUNTRIES WHERE FOOD IS FED TO 
ANIMALS, AND THE ANIMALS ARE EATEN BY 
WESTERN COUNTRIES.
 
Livestock or livestock feed occupies 1/3 of the earth’s ice-free land. 
References
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Steinfeld H., Gerber P., Wassenaar T.,  Castel V., Rosales M., Haan C. 2006. Livestock's long shadow environmental issues and options. 
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. USA. 390 pp 
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Goodland R., Anhang J. Livestock and Climate change : What if the key actors in climate change are... cows, pigs and chickens? http://www .
worldwatch.org/files/pdf/Livestock%20and%20Climate%20Change.pdf (15.11.2015)
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Mekonnen M, Hoekstra A. Y. 2012.  A Global Assessment of the Water Footprint of Farm Animal Products . Netherlands.  pp 20. 
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Schwarzen S. 2009. Growing greenhouse gas emissions due to meat production . Elsevier. Switzerland. pp 8
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Mekonnen M, Hoekstra A. Y. 2012.  A Global Assessment of the Water Footprint of Farm Animal Products. Netherlands.  pp 20. 
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Matthews C. Livestock a major threat to environment. www.fao.org/newsroom/en/News/2006/1000448/index.html (15.11.2015)
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FY-2005 Annual ReportManure and Byproduct Utilization National Program 206. http://www.ars.usda.gov/research/programs/programs .
htm?np_code=206&docid=13337 (15.11.2015)
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Holt-Giménez E. We Already Grow Enough Food for 10 Billion People… and Still Can’t End Hunger . Common Dreams. 05/12. 
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Dr. Oppenlander. The World Hunger-Food Choice Connection : A Summary. http://comfortablyunaware.com/blog/the-world-hunger-food -
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10. Loglisci R. New FDA Numbers Reveal Food Animals Consume Lion’s Share of Antibiotics. http://www.livablefutureblog .
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Pictures
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Picture 1(slide 2) Join the Cowspiracy. https://dirtyhippiebohemiangirl.wordpress.com/2014/08/25/join-the-cowspiracy
(15.11.2015) 
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Picture 2 (silde 3) Attack on Yadavs. http://yadavhistory.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/images/img-6799.316200245
_std.jpg (14.11.2015)
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Picture 3 (slide 4 ). Ramos J. What’s the Deal With Red Meat, the Environment and You? http://www.care2 .
com/ causes /whats-the-deal-with-red-meat-the-environment-and-you.html#ixzz3rYR2D5dX (14.11.2015)
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 Picture 4 (slide 5). Plate to planet . What to Eat: The Environmental Impacts of our Food. http://www.platetoplanet .
org/img/ptp/carousel/airpollution.jpg (14.11.2015) 
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Picture 5 (slide 6). Dales S. Gas-X for Cows? How to Lower Methane Release in Cows  http://www.chicagonow .
com/steve-dales-pet-world/files/2015/08/Greenhouse-energy-and-cows.jpg (15.11.2015)
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Picture 6 (slide 7) Bendrick L. Of cow burps, beef, and methane. http://grist.org/article/2009-05-21-on-cow-burps -
meat-and-methane/ (15.11.2015)
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Picture 7 (slide 8) Egan J. Which Big Texas City Will Need 150% More Water by 2040?  https://www.lawnstarter .
com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/water.jpg (15.11.2015)
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Picture 9 (slide 12) Garling B. WHAT’S THE ROLE OF FACTORY FARMING IN OCEAN DEGRADATION? http:
// mission -blue.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/ALGAE- ASIA -Farm- runoff -1024x763.jpg (15.11.2015)
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Picture 10 (slide 14)  http://weknowyourdreams.com/images/food/food-02.jpg  (15.11.2015) 
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Picture 11 (slide 15)  https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6214/6297575351_68f9265f38.jpg  (15.11.2015)