Clearing the Air..Clearing Livestock's Reputation
The oft quoted United Nations study Livestock’s Longshadow, that one that led environmentalists to believe that cattle cause more greenhouse gasses worldwide than automobiles is being hotly contested by prominent researchers. I’m Susan Allen I’ll be back right after the break with the story. It's about time someone aggressively challenges the 2006 report from the U.N. titled Livestock’s Long Shadow that blamed 18 percent of green house gasses on the world’s livestock. In fact cattle were considered worse than cars when it came to emitting greenhouse gasses. How can that be? It can't! Researchers at UC Davis have announced that on Oct. 1 they will produce evidence that cattle producers and dairies don’t have much if any impact on global warming hoping to defuse the UN report that gave fodder to a media heavily influenced by anti- meat activists. Will the UC Davis report “Clearing the Air: Livestock’s Contribution to Climate Change, receive mainstream coverage? Skeptics will be quick to point out that it was funded by the California Cattlemen’s Association. Yet anyone with common sense understands that areas rich with cattle are less polluted than cities congested by cars. Makes you wonder how native Americans survived, even thrived midst all the greenhouse gasses produced when millions of buffalo roamed the great plains. I’m Susan Allen
