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PLANET earth has a surface of more than 500 million square kilometers This is the same planet containing over 7 billion inhabitants with all these inhabitants needing food every day At least thirty percent of the earth's surface is used for livestock production This includes the production of meat from various animals and their products such as milk and eggs This livestock production should be sufficient to feed the entire world's population with 36 kg of meat a year per person Unfortunately things are not as simple as that In fact the livestock production might not even be seen as a positive contribution at all for as it brings many downsides with it It is one of the biggest causes for the global warming and the destruction of our planet The global livestock represents 14 5 of all the greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans This is approximately 7 1 trillion kg of carbon dioxide annually But this is only 27 of the total livestock emissions Another 44 of the livestock emissions are in the form of methane Methane is about 35 times stronger and more harmful for the environment than the same amount of carbon dioxide would be So not only is the livestock production enormously polluting for the environment it takes in an incredibly large amount of space on our planet as well The animals themselves also need food in order to grow and stay alive which comes at the expense of the people Besides the fact that the livestock limits our space food and health it is one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions
