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The animal is a digestive machine:
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it consumes energy, it gives energy,
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and in the process creates byproducts, one of which is
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methane, and that is affecting the environment.
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This report from the Food and Agriculture Organization
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calculated the percent of total global emissions for carbon dioxide
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that come from just animal agriculture, now again
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not the other plant part of the picture but just the animals,
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and they calculated of the carbon dioxide emissions in the world,
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9% come just from animal agriculture.
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The methane emissions, it's 37%
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and the nitrous oxide emissions it's this.