Beef pollutes more than pork and poultry

And cows spoil many a creek, trail, and camping site. And cattle raisers are the main opponents of restoring wolves to their rightful place in our environment, while taking advantage of public land.

Beef pollutes more than pork and poultry, study says | Albuquerque Journal News

Raising beef for the American dinner table does far more damage to the environment than producing pork, poultry, eggs or dairy, a new study says.

Compared with the other animal proteins, beef produces five times more heat-trapping gases per calorie, puts out six times as much water-polluting nitrogen, takes 11 times more water for irrigation and uses 28 times the land, according to the study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Cows are not efficient at converting feed to protein for human consumption, said lead author Gidon Eshel, an environmental physics professor at Bard College in New York.

Beef pollutes more than pork and poultry, study says | Albuquerque Journal News