{"id":7034,"date":"2016-05-02T14:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T20:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=7034"},"modified":"2019-03-20T13:49:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T19:49:48","slug":"7034","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/7034\/","title":{"rendered":"Cars, not cows, are main source of greenhouse gas emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leading U.S. scientists and the<a href=\"https:\/\/www3.epa.gov\/climatechange\/Downloads\/ghgemissions\/US-GHG-Inventory-2015-Main-Text.pdf\">\u00a0EPA<\/a>\u00a0say the U.S. livestock sector contributes 4.2% of greenhouse gas emissions, compared to 27% from the transportation sector and 31% from the energy sector.<\/p>\n<p>Contributions by species:<\/p>\n<p>-Beef cattle, 2.2%;<\/p>\n<p>-Dairy cattle, 1.37%;<\/p>\n<p>-Swine, .47%;<\/p>\n<p>-Poultry, .08%;<\/p>\n<p>-Sheep, .03%;<\/p>\n<p>-Goats, .01%;<\/p>\n<p>-Other species, .04%.<\/p>\n<p>To read the rest of the story<a href=\"http:\/\/farmfutures.com\/story-cars-cows-are-main-source-greenhouse-gas-emissions-0-140671\"> click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One certainly cannot neglect emissions from the livestock sector, but to compare them to the main emission sources would put us on a wrong path to solutions, namely to significantly reduce our anthropogenic carbon footprint to reduce climate change<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,14],"tags":[412,414,166,413],"class_list":["post-7034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equine-digestion","category-industry","tag-anthropogenic-carbon-footprint","tag-greenhouse-gas","tag-livestock","tag-university-of-california"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7034"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8193,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7034\/revisions\/8193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}