3-24 news: UN admits flaw in climate change report on meat consumption
The Daily Telegraph reports that Dr. Frank Mitloehner, from the University of California at Davis (UCD), said meat and milk production generates less greenhouse gas than most environmentalists claim and that the emissions figures were calculated differently to the transport figures, resulting in an “apples-and-oranges analogy that truly confused the issue.”
The figures for meat’s greenhouse gas emissions included all emissions associated with all aspects of meat production, including fertilizer production, land clearance, methane emissions and vehicle use on farms. The transport figure just included the burning of fossil fuels. Pierre Gerber, a policy officer with the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization, told the BBC that he accepted Mitloehner’s criticism.