The Cattle Greenhouse Gas Myth

The Cattle Greenhouse Gas Myth was perpetrated by the UN FAO.

At their own admission, it was wrong to begin with but never corrected by anybody except a few marginalised scientists!

It all started in 2006 with a faulty study.

In 2006 the FAO (United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation) published a study which received widespread international attention, stating that livestock produced a staggering 18 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. The agency drew a startling conclusion: Livestock was doing more to harm the climate than all modes of transportation combined.

This latter claim was wrong, and has since been corrected by Henning Steinfeld, the report's senior author. They admitted using different methods when analysing agriculture and Transportation thus nullifying their statistics!

According to the EPA (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency), the largest sources of US emissions were electricity production (28 percent of total emissions), transportation (28 percent) and industry (22 percent).

All of agriculture accounted for ONLY a total of 9 % and All of animal agriculture contributes less than half of this amount, namely 3.9% that's very different from claiming livestock represents as much or more than transportation.

Carbon Footprint and Animal Agriculture - some links

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/inventory-us-greenhouse-gas-emissions-and-sinks

short 5 min youtube from Cornell university showing the real figures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0ILn_23MLo