Initial Air Date: May 16, 2019
Dr. Mitloehner has a masters in Agricultural Engineering and Animal Science from University of Leipzig, Germany, and a PhD in Animal Science from Texas Tech University.
He’s currently a professor and air quality specialist at UC Davis and conducts research and outreach that is directly relevant to understanding and mitigating air emissions and greenhouse gases from livestock operations, as well as the implications of these emissions for the health and safety of farm workers and neighboring communities.
He has served as chairman of a global United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) hosted partnership project to benchmark the environmental footprint of livestock production. This is big, everyone. He’ll talk about how he helped correct the FAO data (which is the world leader in this kind of information). These are the bogus statistics used in the film Cowspiracy and that vegan activists still try to use today. He corrected the scientists and showed that the numbers were completely false.
He’s also published dozens of papers on the topics we’ll be discussing today and travels the world giving lectures on this as well.
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What he does on a day to day basis to study animal agriculture, emissions, air quality, and climate change
Vegan propaganda films like Cowspiracy made people believe animal agriculture caused more GHG than the whole transportation industry
The report “Livestock’s Long Shadow” was publicly retracted [ Ссылка ]
He helped to show that they used totally different inputs and methods that
In California transportation is responsible for 50% of all emissions and livestock is only responsible for 5%
In the US livestock is actually 3.9% of direct GHG emissions and all fossil fuel sources combined is 80% according to the EPA
What is a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and what is it for beef?
They created the global partnership LEAP which he was the first chairman of
Created global guidelines to circumvent these problems for the future but many people still use these flawed statistics despite knowing they are wrong
Those that are anti-meat fall closer to that of a religion than of dietary preference
Cattle are raised on pasture for 2/3 of its life (regardless of if they are grass-finished or grain-finished)
When calculating water needed to raise cattle, rain water (green water) was included which is not sensible
Water that goes into an animal is excreted and serves as fertilizer, it’s a cycle
Water needed to make almond milk vs dairy milk is 17X higher
The water argument for fruits and vegetables vs animal products is misleading and must take into account your entire food choices
Our food choices will affect the lives of others no matter what diet you follow
Animal proteins are far more bioavailable than plant proteins
Biological value of animal products in ratios that are well-suited for humans needs to be talked about more
Environmental impact of plant proteins are relatively low but the nutritional value of these are lower than animals
In the US 90 million beef cattle and 9 million dairy cows
Vast majority of beef cattle (~75 million) are on pasture at any given time and 15 million are in feedlots
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