Where's the beef?
Where's the beef?
- July 26, 2011
- Nathan Fiala, economics graduate student, is interviewed on Isla Earth Radio July 26, 2011
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From Isla Earth Radio:
Economist Nathan Fiala of the University of California at Irvine has a beef...about
beef. Specifically, he's concerned about the impact producing beef has on warming
the atmosphere. How much impact? All-told, producing a pound of beef generates the
equivalent of 14.8 pounds of carbon dioxide: more than 36 times the amount emitted
by producing asparagus! Producing one pound of beef protein, experts say, requires
more than 10 pounds of plant protein. Combine everything that's needed to grow a cow
and you've got one heifer-sized carbon footprint.
Audio link available at: http://www.islaearth.org/show.php?_a=vs&_sid=1311663600.
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