Impact of Meat Consumption on Climate Change

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To whom it may concern
Global warming is a representative of one of the numerous facets of climate and refers to the
mean increase in the global surface temperature. Global warming is one of the causes of climate
change. As the degree of impacts of change in the climate become more alarming, meat has
turned out to be a popular target termed to be of concern (Havlík et al., 2015). Reduction of
consumption of meat has been agreed to be one of the possible ways of significantly reducing
climate change and its impacts. To this extent, I differ with the notion in two ways:
1. Abandoning meat will not save the climate as held by most of the people.
2. The information found in some printed and electronic sources of information that
livestock sector produce more effects of carbon footprint that the entire transport sector
combine is statistically incorrect and depends on numerous illogical assumptions.
While most of the people still hold to the idea that forsaking meat to the extent of eat beef once
in a week would result in significant change in the climate towards the positive side is a wrong
ideology. This can be supported by a research that was carried out in the recent past by a scientist
that even if all the animal protein in Australia were eliminated from the diet, the reduction in the
greenhouse emissions would be lowered by just about 2.7 per cent. Another research still
established that adopting a culture of a meatless day across Australia among all the citizens
would result in a reduction of greenhouse emission by just 0.5 per cent.
How then would one argue from these research statistics that abandoning meat and livestock in
their entirety would result in a significant reduction in greenhouse emission and hence carbon
footprint? As per the statistics contained in FAO, the total greenhouse emissions from the sector
of livestock that is reared in Australia has lowered by approximately 13% since the year 1961