Eating beef more harmful to environment than driving a car: NewsTarget.com

The environmental footprint of producing just over two pounds of beef is greater than that of driving a car for three hours, according to a Japanese study reported in "New Scientist."

A research team led by Akifumi Ogino of the National Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science in Tsukuba, Japan, examined the energy used and greenhouse gases emitted at every step in the process of producing beef, including raising calves, managing animals and producing and transporting feed. Researchers found that it took 169 megajoules of energy to produce 2.2 pounds of beef (the equivalent of four average-sized steaks or nearly nine quarter-pound burgers). This is the same amount of energy that would be consumed by leaving a 100-watt bulb burning for 20 days.

One-third of this energy went into producing and transporting the animals' feed.

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