Beef production and global warming

This is pretty interesting ... Did you know that beef production -- just beef -- accounts for about 2.2 percent of heat-trapping emissions in the U.S.? (Agriculture as a whole accounts for around 6 percent.) That's about the same as the emissions of 24 million cars or 33 power plants.

But according to this report by the Union of Concerned Scientists, beef production can also lower climate emissions and help "remove heat-trapping carbon from the atmosphere and store it in soil." More environmentally friendly beef production can reduce emissions of heat-trapping gases such as nitrous oxide. This can also have nutritional advantages for consumers. Why wouldn't you want meat that's better for you AND for the environment? Check it out.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2178385711/

"Guernsey cow or calf lying on the ground" via the Library of Congress

By Erin