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  Tom--

  I agree with the gist of your post, but am curious about some numbers. You say that industrial meat production may contribute more than a fifth of American total GHG. I don't have a number for that, but I have cited these numbers:

  http://groups.google.com/group/news-from-will-brownsberger/web/how-much-does-the-u-s-agriculture-sector-contribute-to-climate-change?pli=1

  in my writing on climate change and agriculture. Not accounting for the change in measuring NO2's contribution to emissions, the number is 10 percent. Where are you drawing your guesses from?

  by the way: chicken and poultry apparently contribute about 1/60th of the GHG per/calorie that beef production does.

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