Add the effects of the three gases associated with farming animals and you get total emissions equivalent to 7.1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide a year. According to the UN report we humans are responsible for a total of the equivalent of 40 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide a year. That’s where I got that incredible figure of 18 per cent of total emissions.

We've done what (forgive the pun) comes naturally for a while now, and there's quite a lot of us. No more space to stand on and grow stuff, but we're still populating away, whilst merrily turning the growing bits into sources of fuel for our dear leader to gad about on the lecture circuit. And where is the mention of top soil errosion, caused by over grazing? The top soil is blown into the ocean along the coast line of Africa and is suffercating the coral reef? This means you can install our Words on Screen™ software onto ONE computer only, or it can be streamed by a single user. Well, without getting too theological, we kinda stemmed from the same design-shop, and it's looking like we're pretty flawed.

While it is true that ignorant people eat as much meat and dairy as they can afford to buy, better-informed, more ethical people are working hard to lessen their negative impact on the planet--and saving their own lives in the process. So instead of relying on manufacturing methods, the researchers focused on getting the source material free of whey.

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Everytime I see the whiny Vegan "on vacation" female in developing countries inquire wether the food that is being prepared for their consumption is adherent to "non-animal" standards, I shake my head. What about the fences that were put up on the migratory tails in Africa, to protect domestic cows? Wilderbeast couldn't get to the water and thousands of them died. Along with their deaths, came the reduced numbers of lions due to reduced food supplies. Hyeinas also diminished in numbers, not to mention, the poor cheater that ran into the chain link fences at over 70miles an hour. OK, now that's off my chest, I would just like to add that it would have been nice to bring the question of ethics and morality into the equation. Peter Singer's book The Ethics of What We Eat is a good starting point, and there are many ethical issues to be resolved when choosing an omnivore diet beyond the issue of global warming and methane release. One feast of flesh aside, I’ve resolved to eat less meat but the rest of the world isn’t going to. As incomes rise meat is one of the first things people buy. Meat consumption is to double by 2050. The study you undertook is absolutely without real meaning. One need only take a bus in the city of Joinville - Santa Catarina State - Brazil, in high summer (about 36 - 39 degrees centigrade) towards late afternoon, to realizes that the population consisting to a large extent of the descendants of German immgrants, who eat sauerkraut and cole-slaw as a staple emit far more greenhouse gases than their neighbors, 600 kilometers south, in the gaucho state of Rio Grande do Sul where a reasonable meal is half a kilo of underdone meat, some cassava flour and a couple of tomatos and lettuce, possibly one potato.

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Daisy was born unable to produce the major allergen in whey, but also born four weeks prematurely, and, to the surprise of researchers, without a tail. Having read several of the comments posted, and the article in question, it seems a shame that so many are diverted from the point in question... cows being such a big cause of so many problems... to an issue of diet... Clearly a carefully monitored diet will not produce any difficiencies or health problems.... meat or no meat....