EVSC 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Carbon Footprint, Silage, Coproduct
24 Apr 2018
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Nutritional strategies and the environmental footprint of livestock production. Anthropogenic ghg have been linked to climate change. 14. 5% of anthropogenic ghg comes from livestock. 60% of ghg from livestock is from producing the feed. As people increase there is more of a meat demand. If you remove animal production from the food chain overall food production would increase, an animal is not e cient if there was no animal food production would increase by 50% Ine cient from producing feed to getting meat in an animal. You would not be getting the requirement for calcium, vitamin a, vitamin e vitamin b12 vitamin k, fatty acids. A grain base diet would increase 23% but it would be lacking in a lot of essential nutrients. Pigs don"t produce a whole lot of methane but the manure does. More emissions than products when it comes to animal production.
