A CLIMATE FOR KILLING: New report exposes impact of factory-farmed meat
Every year, more than 80 billion land animals are farmed globally, most on cruel factory farms. The report analyzed the carbon footprint of factory farming chickens and pigs in four of the world's biggest factory-farming hot spots.
WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION: New research, titled, Climate Change and Cruelty commissioned by global animal welfare non-profit organization, World Animal Protection has revealed the true impact of factory farming on our planet, finding that ongoing expansion of factory farming will put achievement of the Paris Climate Agreement goals and a climate-safe future out of reach.
Every year, more than 80 billion land animals are farmed globally, most on cruel factory farms. This research analyzed the carbon footprint of factory farming chickens and pigs in four of the world’s biggest factory-farming hot spots (Brazil, China, The Netherlands, and the US), finding that the emissions from producing current numbers of chickens are equivalent to keeping 29 million cars on the road for a year and emissions from producing pigs are equal to 74 million cars.
The pig and chicken industries are often overlooked as contributors to climate change, with significant focus on methane emissions from raising cows. These findings offer new insight into the true footprint of factory-farming. Growing, processing, and transporting the crops used for feed in factory farms accounts for about 60% and 40% of the overall emissions for chickens and pigs respectively…
World Animal Protection is calling on the US government to stop approving new factory farms by imposing a moratorium for a 10-year period in order to curb the damages they are inflicting. A bill currently being considered in Congress, the Farm Systems Reform Act (FSRA), would require that the largest factory farms be phased out by 2040…
“Urgent action by the US government and companies to address climate change is imperative, and these new findings shed light on a sector that is all too commonly ignored in climate action plans; the factory farming of pigs and chickens,” says Annette Manusevich, Farming Campaign Manager with World Animal Protection US. SOURCE…
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