"With increased prosperity, people are consuming more meat and dairy products every year. Global meat production is projected to more than double from 229 million tonnes in 1999/2001 to 465 million tonnes in 2050, while milk output is set to climb from 580 to 1043 million tonnes."
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation have released an interesting report, detailing how livestock are significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems we're facing on this beautiful planet.
"Livestock now use 30 percent of the earth’s entire land surface, mostly permanent pasture but also including 33 percent of the global arable land used to producing feed for livestock"
They also list a number of feeble "remedies" that could be used to help the situation. These include "Improving animals’ diets to reduce enteric fermentation and consequent methane emissions". Somehow I don't think it's the diet of the livestock that we should be re-examining.
