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Beef is a huge problem. Every four pounds you eat releases as much greenhouse gas as your share of a flight from New York to London.
If cattle were a country, they’d be the third biggest greenhouse-gas polluter on the planet, right behin...
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It’s mostly burps: as much as 12 gallons of gas an hour per cow.
Half of the upburped greenhouse gases is methane, which is awful, awful stuff, many times worse than CO2.
The belching of our red-meat creatures makes up 27% of all methane produced by human activity—more methane than the entire fossil-fuel industry.
The bottom line: A finished steak or burger required 28 times as much land to raise as pigs or chickens, used 11 times more water, and pumped 5 times as much greenhouse gas into the atmosphere.
