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#livestock

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OpenGeoHub Foundation

We are building #Open global consistent time-series data on #livestock dynamics (cattle, goats, sheep and horses) at 1-km annual for 2000-2022+ with uncertainty (prediction intervals). We used the correlation between census data (+50k census polygons) and large stack of environmental covariates to downscale sub-national livestock inventories (preprint at: doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-62019). The first outputs are now available for testing: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1493363. All code at: github.com/wri/global-pasture-

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MediaFaro News Digest

Bird flu detected in a sheep in England for first time.

The case, found in a sheep in Yorkshire after repeated milk tests, was identified “following routine surveillance” of livestock on a premises where avian influenza had been confirmed in captive birds.

There is no evidence of an increased risk to the UK’s livestock, but officials urge vigilance.

mediafaro.org/article/20250324

Sheep in a pen. | Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
Politico.eu · Bird flu detected in a sheep in England for first time.By Claudia Chiappa
#UK#BirdFlu#Sheep
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Michael Dmitriev

Cattle breeding remains a growing segment in Indonesia: the country actively imports live cattle for slaughter, as well as fresh and frozen cattle meat, as its own livestock and slaughtering capacity is currently insufficient to meet current consumer demand. Meat production in Indonesia in 2023 amounted to 4.8 million tons, which is 2.1% less than in the previous year.

globaltribune.net/overview-of-

#agriculture#asia#indonesia
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Richard Rathe

Great article about #BigAg...

riverraccoon.substack.com/p/se

"Water from the #RedRiver flows through #LakeWinnipeg on its journey to #HudsonBay. Lake Winnipeg is huge—the world’s 11th largest freshwater lake by surface area (even larger than Lake Ontario and about the same as Lake Erie) and has the world’s largest ‘lakeshed’, i.e. area of land draining to a lake. It supports a large commercial and sport fishery for several fish species including walleye, which are a peculiar green color there due to the mineral content of the water."

"The #water_quality in Lake Winnipeg is tanking because of “rapidly increased #livestock production and use of synthetic #fertilizer in the Red River Valley, with smaller contributions of phosphorus from the city of Winnipeg and other human development in the Red and Winnipeg River basins .” Nutrient-driven #toxic #algae blooms have doubled in size since the 1990s due to increases in Red River phosphorus levels, a common component of livestock manure."

Map of the red river of the north
#Agriculture#Money#Politics
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VeganPizza69 ⓋⒶ

"The American Beef Industry Understood Its Climate Impact Decades Ago"

insideclimatenews.org/news/140

People need to know about the anti-science and pseudoscience promoted by the meat industry, especially the cow meat industry, to hide the non-slaughter horrors of their bloody industry.

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Jacquet, a professor of environmental science and policy at the University of Miami, noted that the 2006 UN report represented an inflection point, not only making the public aware of livestock’s climate impact, but putting the industry on notice that it could potentially be targeted for regulation. The report said that livestock’s climate emissions—which come from converting forests to pasture, growing feed, methane-emitting cow burps and manure storage—were about 18 percent of the global total, more even than the transportation sector.
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In 1989—the year after NASA’s James Hansen famously told Congress that climate change posed a global threat—the Environmental Protection Agency held a workshop focusing on methane emissions from livestock and, soon after, published a report, “Reducing Methane Emissions from Livestock.” The report said that livestock were a major source of methane and estimated that a 50 percent decrease in global emissions from livestock would yield huge benefits for stabilizing this especially potent greenhouse gas. Tucked into an appendix was the following suggestion: “Reducing methane emissions from ruminants should be pursued as part of an overall investigation into alternatives for reducing future global warming and its impacts.”
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Jacquet and her co-authors note that representatives from the meat and dairy industry attended the 1989 EPA workshop, including a member of the National Cattlemen’s Association. Several months and a handful of planning meetings later, the association, which is the country’s biggest beef lobby and now known as the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, or NCBA, developed a “Strategic Plan on the Environment” to counter anticipated public relations problems or regulations related to climate change. The plan included suggestions to reach out to “key influencers” with research and positive messaging about the industry’s environmental benefits.
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In a separate study, published this week, Jacquet and another University of Miami researcher, Loredana Loy, trace the meat industry’s efforts to derail advocacy groups’ attempts to persuade the public to eat less meat as a climate strategy. These attempts include the Beyond Beef campaign and others, including Diet for a New America and Meatless Monday.
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The study says the livestock industry took a different approach than the oil and gas industry, which tried to convince the public it was only continuing to develop fossil fuels because consumers called for them. The livestock industry, on the other hand, tried to convince consumers that their dietary choices would make no difference.
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Inside Climate News · The American Beef Industry Understood Its Climate Impact Decades Ago - Inside Climate NewsNew research finds the industry’s campaigns to confuse the public about beef’s climate impact go back longer than previously recognized.
#meat#beef#bigMeat
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