dohboi wrote:If by 'common sense' you mean undigested prejudice and knee-jerk reactions, I would agree!
dohboi wrote:World must reach 'peak meat' by 2030 to meet climate change targets, scientists warn
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/12/world/pe ... index.html
"The world needs to reach "peak meat" within the next 10 years to combat the effects of climate change, scientists have warned.
In a letter to The Lancet Planetary Health Journal, they said all but the poorest countries needed to set a time frame for livestock production to stop growing, since the meat and dairy sector is responsible for such a large proportion of emissions.
The scientists called on governments to identify the largest emissions sources or land-occupiers in the livestock sector and set reduction targets to help fight the risk of global temperatures rising by more than the "safe" limit of 1.5-2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels."
see also:
Title: "Emissions – Impossible"
https://www.iatp.org/emissions-impossible
"Emissions intensity targets count emissions per kilogram of meat or milk, but they do nothing to curtail overall growth in company emissions, sales, processing volumes, revenues, or profits.
While intensity may be kept in check or even reduced, total emissions will continue to rise in tandem with production. It is easy to see why corporations focus on reducing intensity rather than reducing total emissions."
Cog wrote:I believe I'm pretty much a master at grilling anything capable of being grilled but this sous vide deal has me intrigued. Is the meat really that much more juicy? Of course like anyone with refined taste, I want my meat cooked rare. The thought of putting meat in a hot water bath sounds counter intuitive.
Cog wrote:I'll try the sous fide but I'll sear my steaks on a charcoal grill as God intended. My lord man, do you have common decency at all?
I'll try the sous fide but I'll sear my steaks on a charcoal grill as God intended. My lord man, do you have common decency at all?
Livestock play an important role in carbon cycling through consumption of biomass and emissions of methane. Recent research suggests that existing bottom-up inventories of livestock methane emissions in the US, such as those made using 2006 IPCC Tier 1 livestock emissions factors, are too low. This may be due to outdated information used to develop these emissions factors. In this study, we update information for cattle and swine by region, based on reported recent changes in animal body mass, feed quality and quantity, milk productivity, and management of animals and manure. We then use this updated information to calculate new livestock methane emissions factors for enteric fermentation in cattle, and for manure management in cattle and swine.
Using the new emissions factors, we estimate global livestock emissions of 119.1 ± 18.2 Tg methane in 2011; this quantity is 11% greater than that obtained using the IPCC 2006 emissions factors, encompassing an 8.4% increase in enteric fermentation methane, a 36.7% increase in manure management methane, and notable variability among regions and sources. For example, revised manure management methane emissions for 2011 in the US increased by 71.8%. For years through 2013, we present (a) annual livestock methane emissions, (b) complete annual livestock carbon budgets, including carbon dioxide emissions, and (c) spatial distributions of livestock methane and other carbon fluxes, downscaled to 0.05 × 0.05 degree resolution.
Our revised bottom-up estimates of global livestock methane emissions are comparable to recently reported top-down global estimates for recent years, and account for a significant part of the increase in annual methane emissions since 2007.
Our results suggest that livestock methane emissions, while not the dominant overall source of global methane emissions, may be a major contributor to the observed annual emissions increases over the 2000s to 2010s.
Differences at regional and local scales may help distinguish livestock methane emissions from those of other sectors in future top-down studies. The revised estimates allow improved reconciliation of top-down and bottom-up estimates of methane emissions, will facilitate the development and evaluation of Earth system models, and provide consistent regional and global Tier 1 estimates for environmental assessments.
careinke wrote:Well I just cut out a 21 day, dry cured, grass feed, Prime Rib roast for Christmas. we are going to cure the rest of the side for 45 days before we butcher it. Probably most of you have never eaten dry aged beef, I'm almost certain I have not. We will Sous Vide It, then sear the outside at 500 F. I'll let you know how it is.
BTW we bought the side for $3.00 per pound hanging weight. Grass fed beef is pretty inexpensive if you by from a local farmer and butcher it yourself.
Our results suggest that livestock methane emissions, while not the dominant overall source of global methane emissions, may be a major contributor to the observed annual emissions increases over the 2000s to 2010s.
Yonnipun wrote:Our results suggest that livestock methane emissions, while not the dominant overall source of global methane emissions, may be a major contributor to the observed annual emissions increases over the 2000s to 2010s.
Emissions do not heat the planet. Sun does.
Newfie wrote:Here is an article that makes the case we need cattle and new farming techniques to help solve climate change.
https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEC ... id=US%3Aen
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