The saddest part is that a good chunk of what is produced from that livestock gets thrown away because overproduction doesn’t matter under capitalism so long as profits exceed costs of production.

Entire farms worth of animals being slaughtered, with those in power who demand it be done knowing full well that nearly half is going to end up in a landfill, because it has the potential to make the owners a buck of profit.

How others are not enraged by this, I do not know. It fills my blood with a cold anger.

It seems odd to me that crops for feed would be less than crops, considering this source says 80% of agricultural land is used for feed. Some of that land is for grazing, sure, but it smells fishy.

The percentages seem to be lifted from supplementary table S17 from Poore & Nemecek (2018), which isn’t paywalled (the main article is, but sci-hub gets around that). This table cites EDGAR 4.2 FT2010, a dataset compiled for the European Commission, but the link redirects to the EDGAR landing page.

The Internet Archive version of the page shows links to downloadable tables, which aren’t archived and which 404 on the EDGAR website. None of which would obviously provide a global CO2 equivalent of all greenhouse gases by industry component. The page also says there is a detailed explanation in a report to the International Energy Agency, which is archived but which makes no mention of “feed”.

Trying to find the same data through EDGAR’s archive, I come to this page, but it appears to be raw data which doesn’t split things up into different sectors, but which does somehow purport to track CO2 emissions per square of 0.1 degrees latitude and longitude excluding CO2 from “short-cycle biofuels” (e.g. firewood).

This makes very little sense to me as raw data. I could see a satellite-bassd determination of CO2 emissions, but that wouldn’t exclude firewood. I could see this being the output of land use analysis and modeling, but then where is the model? Where are the inputs of the model? Where is the citation of the scientific article explaining the model?

Also, the data only seems to go up to 2008 when Poore and Nemecek cite it for a 2010 average. So I have no idea what the heck is going on.

Have you seen a chart like this for all sources, not just food?

wish this was a link to the site. I assume you could go through years and how its changed and such.