3 Myths Debunked: Animal Agriculture's Real Impact On The Environment

 The way the public and the media perceive animal agriculture's environmental impact can, and should, change. New research from Oxford University and the University of California, Davis have recently debunked some critical and long-standing myths surrounding animal agriculture. But can this breakthrough overcome animal agriculture’s bad reputation?

Three Myths About Animal Agriculture’s Environmental Impact Debunked

• Methane acts just like other GHGs in the environment
• The three main greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, all impact the environment in critically different ways
• Carbon dioxide and Nitrous oxide are long-lived gases that will continue to build up in the atmosphere for a long time, whereas methane is a flow gas and is removed from the atmosphere at a more rapid pace
• Current method for assessing the global warming potential (GWP100) of greenhouse gases properly accounts for all important variables
• However, the current GWP100 measurement generates an over-assessment of methane's contribution to global warming
• Currently, in short, methane emissions are standardized to a methane equivalent of 28,000 years, which is an underestimation of the effect methane has on the environment

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