On any morning at the COP27 climate conference, you can expect a gauntlet of anti-meat protesters wearing pig and cow costumes, holding banners decrying the carbon footprint of livestock, and chanting slogans like 'Let's be vegan, let's be free.'
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov 15 - On any morning at the COP27 climate conference, you can expect a gauntlet of anti-meat protesters wearing pig and cow costumes, holding banners decrying the carbon footprint of livestock, and chanting slogans like "Let's be vegan, let's be free."
Cows, sheep, pigs and other livestock are responsible for about 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to a peer-reviewedAnd researchers fear the impact may be greater, after recent efforts to measure emissions at individual U.S. farms - by, say, flying a methane-detecting plane over them – showed them churning out much more than estimated.
Climate scientists are also skeptical that industry-preferred measures will go far enough. Andy Reisinger, a farm emissions specialist who is a vice-chair of the U.N.'s IPCC climate panel, said feed additives would promote the type of intensive farming driving emissions. Not everyone minds the smell of barbecue, though, and several companies want to commercialize an emerging technology to grow meat in steel vats using microbial fermentation.
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