Farm ‘emissions’ could be on global warming talks

And should be.

You think Big Coal, the Big Three, etc., have squealed about Kyoto and post-Kyoto climate control deals, or potential deals? You ain’t heard nothing yet compared to the sounds that will come out of Big Ag if CAFOs, or whatever they’re called in western European, come under the regulatory microscope:

“It’s an area that’s been largely overlooked,” said Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Nobel Prize-winning United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He says people should eat less meat to control their carbon footprints. “We haven’t come to grips with agricultural emissions.”

he correctly notes this would have more environmental benefit tan driers switching to hybrid cars.

Short of eating less meat, at least, eat more poultry. It takes less plant food to put a pound on a chicken than it does a hog. (A Swedish group estimates the entire process of producing a pound of beef produces 11 times more emissions than does a pound of chicken.) And, if not poultry, then more pork. It takes less plant food to put a pound of new weight on a hog than a cow.

Sweden is going to start labeling meat at the grocer’s for emissions. That could be one part of the solution.