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Jul 4, 2017 · Farming Plants – A Comparison. A report from the Humane Party analyzes the land-use, efficiency, and profitability of animal farming versus plant farming. The fact that animal agriculture is much more resource intensive than plant agriculture has become fairly well known among animal advocates.
- Air (and Global Warming) Pollution
- Water Pollution
- There’S A Better Way
Vehicles and farms are both responsible for similar types of air pollution. They both emit pollutants that harm health and cause climate change, including particulate matter (soot), nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and methane. Transportation-related air pollution comes from not only driving, but also manufacturing, maintaining, an...
Vehicles and farms are also responsible for water pollution that causes algal blooms and aquatic dead zones, contaminates drinking water, and damages aquatic habitat. When it comes to the transportation sector, runoff from paved roads and parking lots picks up leaked motor oil, spilled fuel and other pollutants and carries them into waterways. As f...
It’s obvious that it would be good to reduce pollution from the US food and farm system. So, what can be done? One approach is for farms to integrate more agroecology practices and work with nature to protect natural resources. For example, farmers can grow plants on fields year-round, keeping living roots in the ground to soak up more nutrients be...
Sep 18, 2018 · Using a global life cycle approach, FAO estimated all direct and indirect emissions from livestock (cattle, buffaloes, goat, sheep, pigs and poultry) at 7.1 gigatons of CO2 equivalent per year, or 14.5% of all anthropogenic emissions reported by the IPCC.
Jul 30, 2016 · The Chemistry of Bumper Crops [Excerpt] Irrigation is more than just throwing water on a field—it can be a nuanced chemical conversation between humans and plants. By Judith D. Schwartz ...
Oct 27, 2020 · Have you noticed a bumper crop of acorns this year? You’re not alone – it seems that across the UK, oak trees are having what’s known as a mast year. The bountiful harvest is a clever strategy to ensure the future generation of oak trees and it’s welcome food for wildlife too.
In agriculture, a bumper crop is a crop that has yielded an unusually productive harvest. The word "bumper" in this context comes from a usage that means "something unusually large", [1] which is where this term comes from. [2]
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Apr 21, 2022 · Animal agriculture is significantly more resource-intensive, using more water and land, emitting more greenhouse gases, and delivering less of the population’s nutritional needs. [1] By comparison, crop farming uses 115 million acres less to generate around 1.5 trillion more pounds of food.
