FAO Yields to Meat Industry Pressure on Climate Change

New York Times: Robert Goodland retired as lead environmental adviser at the World Bank Group after serving there for 23 years. His work was influential in my "We Could Be Heroes" column of May 15. The past year has been the warmest ever in the United States, with record heat sweeping across the country last week, causing at least 52 human deaths and also harming livestock. In fact, livestock are not only harmed by human-caused global-warming greenhouse gas, but also cause about 18 percent of it, according to...

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