FAO: Without major corrective measures, livestock's environmental impact 'will worsen dramatically'

A recent FAO study found that livestock production is one of the major causes the world's most pressing environmental problems, including global warming, land degradation, air and water pollution, and loss of biodiversity.

"The future of the livestock-environment interface," the study said, "will be shaped by how we resolve the balance of two competing demands: for animal food products on the one side and for environmental services on the other." In a report to the Committee on Agriculture (COAG), FAO outlines the major corrective measures urgently needed to address livestock's environmental impact which, it warns, "will otherwise worsen dramatically". (...)

Four lines of action(...)

Second, accept that the intensification of livestock production is inevitable, but make this process environmentally sustainable through, e.g. waste recycling on cropland and application of appropriate technology, especially in feeding and waste management

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Notes:
-FAO promotes factory farming.
-FAO does not even consider vegetarianism of being an option!

Quote: "Although cattle grazing in the West has polluted more water, eroded more topsoil, killed more fish, displaced more wildlife and destroyed more vegetation than any other kind of land use, the American public pays ranchers to do it." - Ted Williams (Audobon, 1991)

Source: ...intensification of livestock production is inevitable....
Author: FAO