{"id":753982,"date":"2018-07-24T08:10:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T12:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=753982"},"modified":"2018-07-24T08:10:04","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T12:10:04","slug":"animal-agriculture-surpasses-oil-as-largest-polluter-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=753982","title":{"rendered":"Animal Agriculture Surpasses Oil as Largest Polluter in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>The climate community\u2019s attention has been focused on fossil fuel companies. It is time we broadened our focus to include the meat and dairy majors.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ANNA STAROSTINETSKAYA:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;A new report published by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) and non-profit GRAIN found that the world\u2019s five top meat and dairy corporation (JBS, Tyson, Cargill, Fonterra, and Dairy Farmers of America) collectively produce more greenhouse gas emissions than the top three oil companies (ExxonMobil, BP, and Shell). \u201cThe indirect subsidies the industry receives through governments footing the bill for their air, water and land pollution, public health impacts from antibiotics overuse, and biodiversity loss can and must be stopped,\u201d the report stated.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Researchers quantified greenhouse gas emissions from 35 global meat and dairy companies\u2014which, the report stated, often fail to report their own emissions\u2014and found that the top 20 animal-agriculture companies emit more harmful gases than entire nations such as Germany, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. \u201cThe climate community\u2019s attention has been focused on fossil fuel companies,\u201d the report stated. \u201cIt is time we broadened our focus to include the meat and dairy majors&#8221;.&#8217;<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/vegnews.com\/2018\/7\/animal-agriculture-surpasses-oil-as-largest-polluter-in-the-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hFwx7W-lx5w?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANNA STAROSTINETSKAYA: &#8216;A new report published by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) and non-profit GRAIN found that the world\u2019s five top meat and dairy corporation (JBS, Tyson, Cargill, Fonterra, and Dairy Farmers of America) collectively produce more greenhouse gas emissions than the top three oil companies (ExxonMobil, BP, and Shell). \u201cThe indirect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":753983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,17,19,24,25],"tags":[30,31],"class_list":["post-753982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-environment","category-health","category-science","category-welfare","tag-exploitation","tag-farming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=753982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753984,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753982\/revisions\/753984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/753983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=753982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=753982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=753982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}