What’s true about cows and global warming
I keep coming upon this statistic that states livestock are responsible for 14.5% of global gas emissions.
Some designate ruminant animals cows, sheep and goats as the biggest contributors to greenhouse gases. Others then go on to offer a solution: Switch from beef and lamb to chicken and pork … and consume fewer dairy products.
Not everyone agrees with that conclusion, including Dr. Frank Mitloehner, professor and air quality expert at the University of California at Davis.
“Forgoing meat is not the environmental panacea many would have us believe,” he states.
Here are some of his reasons.
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Biden administration, workers grapple with health threats posed by climate change and heat Source: By Eli Rosenberg and Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post • Posted: Tuesday, July 20, 2021
The Labor Department is looking at new regulations while workers, particularly in the West, suffer through a brutal summer
Farmworkers replant vines at a vineyard in Davis, Calif., on July 9. California’s Central Valley was under an excessive heat warning that weekend as temperatures reached up to 115 degrees. (Max Whittaker for The Washington Post)
The issue has become such a concern that the Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has put a new heat illness rule on a list of agenda items for the Biden administration to consider, calling it a top priority. Right now, there is no specific federal policy that governs heat-related workplace safety, leaving states to set their own approach.
UW–Madison a partner in Net Zero Initiative to cut U.S. dairy industry emissions
UW–Madison a partner in Net Zero Initiative to cut U.S. dairy industry emissions
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The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a partner in a new multi-state, multi-institution project to help cut greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. dairy industry. The project, funded in part through a $10 million grant from the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR), seeks to support U.S. dairy’s Net Zero Initiative (NZI) as a critical on-farm pathway to advance the industrywide 2050 Environmental Stewardship Goals that were set through the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy.
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