AG use of Fossil Fuels: Animal agriculture in its entirety from field to table is the third-largest consumer of unsustainable fossil fuels, after energy production and overall industrial usage (1). It is also a heavy user of petrochemicals through its application of enhancement chemicals; fertilisers, herbicides, and pesticides (2).

AG Methane Biogas a False Solution: Animal agriculture produces methane from animals and their waste. A livestock industry bid of methane capture for biogas is not clean energy, as it still emits considerable GHGs in its process (3). Continuing intensive animal farming does not lessen the release of other GHGs emitted by the industry (4). Animal Ag. also produces a large percentage of food waste in landfills which emit methane (5).

AG Supply Chain: In the animal agriculture supply chain, animal feed is often grown in one continent, and exported to another (6). Live animals are also frequently transported long distances by land and water. In the US, live animals are the first listed in commodities transport (7). Animal parts not consumed in place are often processed and turned into other consumer products (8). The resulting emissions are usually attributed to transport or other industries even though they are still a part of the industrial exploitation of animals.

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