Comments on: “..India tells West to stop eating beef..” http://whoar.co.nz/2009/india-tells-west-to-stop-eating-beef/ news / information / opinion / debate / humour Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:32:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Sofia http://whoar.co.nz/2009/india-tells-west-to-stop-eating-beef/comment-page-1/#comment-364125 Sofia Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:07:09 +0000 http://whoar.co.nz/2009/india-tells-west-to-stop-eating-beef/#comment-364125 "The United States, the world's largest emitter along with China, is also the world's greatest beef-eating nation and consumes 25 per cent more than Europe." from other sources - Lord Stern, author of the 2006 Stern Review on the cost of tackling global warming, predicts that eating meat could in the future become as socially unacceptable as drink driving. Livestock farming has come under fire in recent years from environmental campaigners because methane from cattle and pigs is a significant source of greenhouse gases. A 400-page United Nations report from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) states that cattle farming is "responsible for 18% of greenhouse gases." The world cattle population is estimated to be about 1.3 billion head. India is the nation with the largest number of cattle, about 281,700,000 or 28.29% of the world cattle population. The United States: 96,669,000, 34.32% of India's total, 9.71% of world cattle population. New Zealand is included among "other countries": 49,756,000 5.00%. So India has 2.9 times [very near three times] the number of cattle as does the USA, and don't Indian cows live longer because they aren't killed and eaten. “The United States, the world’s largest emitter along with China, is also the world’s greatest beef-eating nation and consumes 25 per cent more than Europe.”

from other sources -
Lord Stern, author of the 2006 Stern Review on the cost of tackling global warming, predicts that eating meat could in the future become as socially unacceptable as drink driving.
Livestock farming has come under fire in recent years from environmental campaigners because methane from cattle and pigs is a significant source of greenhouse gases.

A 400-page United Nations report from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) states that cattle farming is “responsible for 18% of greenhouse gases.”
The world cattle population is estimated to be about 1.3 billion head. India is the nation with the largest number of cattle, about 281,700,000 or 28.29% of the world cattle population. The United States: 96,669,000, 34.32% of India’s total, 9.71% of world cattle population. New Zealand is included among “other countries”: 49,756,000 5.00%.

So India has 2.9 times [very near three times] the number of cattle as does the USA, and don’t Indian cows live longer because they aren’t killed and eaten.

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