{"id":9513,"date":"2018-10-01T08:55:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T06:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carnisostenibili.cvdemo.online\/en\/?p=9513"},"modified":"2019-05-22T10:25:55","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T08:25:55","slug":"livestock-the-missing-tool-against-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carnisostenibili.it\/en\/livestock-the-missing-tool-against-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Livestock: the missing tool against climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Despite the abundance of papers and reports, there is no science underlying the belief that livestock\u00a0cause either desertification or climate change.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

We have for centuries vilified livestock<\/strong> for causing desertification and more recently also climate change<\/strong>. Today literally hundreds of celebrities have joined the growing vegetarian<\/strong> and vegan<\/strong> movement to save the environment, and eminent scientists given media coverage stress the need for the world to eat less, especially red, meat<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Such antagonism against livestock<\/strong>, as well as against ranchers, and pastoralists<\/strong> resulting in cultural genocide<\/strong> in the U.S., Israel, China and elsewhere I once shared because I loved wildlife<\/strong> and could see the obvious damage where pastoralists and ranchers ran livestock<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

No one is to blame for misinterpreting<\/strong> what we all could see so plainly through the lens of our beliefs<\/strong>. Observing the loss of biodiversity<\/strong> and beginning of desertification in wonderful wild areas in Africa<\/strong>, where we were forming new National Parks, led to my questioning the dogma of my university training and my beliefs as a scientist<\/strong>. Despite the abundance of peer-reviewed papers and international reports, there is no science underlying the belief that livestock<\/strong>, and not our management of them, cause either desertification<\/strong> or climate change<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Continue reading on Allan Savory’s website<\/a>…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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