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Climate Change and Meat
Consumption
Jens Holm, MEP 2006-2009
www.jensholm.se
www.vansterpartiet.se
Zagreb 2/10-09
www.meatclimate.org
www.meatclimate.org
Source: Prof. Konrad Steffen,
Univ. of Colorado
Ilulissat
World´s meat production 1950-2000
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World´s meat production 1950-2000
2005: 264 million ton.
2050: 465 million ton (approx).
A lot of meat = a lot of animals
Animals y/w
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Chickens
Pigs
Lamb/sheep
Turkeys
Cattle
48 bn
1.2 bn
800 million
700 million
300 million
Soy bean production
Meat -> global warming
Livestock:
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2/3 of the world´s N2O
35-40 % of the world´s CH4
9 % av the world´s CO2
18 % of world´s GHG
Källa: FAO Livestock´s Long Shadow, 2006
Meat consumption per capita kg/y.
Source: FAO, 2004
Meat consumption in North and South
Solutions
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Abolish the EU meat subsidies
Meat tax
Information campaigns
Public procurement
Meat free day.
Campaigns on restaurants etc.
Thursdays…
Even in the EP…
Science says: Eat less meat
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2006 Livestock´s Long Shadow. Environmental Issues and Options FAO.
Meat industry and livestock breeding represents 18 % of world´s emissions of greenhouse gases.
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1997 Beef and Car? Household´s Environmental Choices Swedish EPA: Food consumption
1/5 of Sweden´s total energy use.
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1997 Vegan, Vegetarian, Onmivore, Sweden´s University of Agricultural Sciences: 10-15 times
more energy needed to produce meat instead of beans.
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Sept 2007 Report in The Lancet.
Reduce of meat consumption to the half of today´s levels.
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2008, Taxation on Animal Food in the EU, Molin, Wirsenius et al Chalmers University.
Impose a meat tax!
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2008 Less meat – less heat.
Rajendra Pachuari, chair of IPCC.
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2009 McKinsey
Eat less meat.
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2009 The Amazone Cattle Footprint, Greenpeace.
Meat consumption main culprit the destruction of rainforest. 1990-2003 rise in cattle from 26 to 64
million.
The people: Yes we can
• 1997 Eating for a better Environment, Swedish EPA:
Meat consumption should decrease with 75 %, milk with
25 %.
• June 2009 Food recommendations. Swedish National
Food Administration and the EPA
Eat 40 % less meat!
• 2008 The Public and Climate Change (No. 5904).
Swedish EPA
47 % of the Swedes are willing to reduce their meat
consumption in order to reduce their climate impact.
Eat less
or no meat!
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