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Cattle biggest contributor to global warming: UN
New York, Nov 30 (PTI) Who is contributing most to global warming? Dumb cattle and not emissions from factories and power plants, says the United Nations.
The increasing world population, a new UN report warns, would lead to further increase in the number of livestock as demand for meat and milk increases and that would mean emission of more greenhouse gases.
Not only that. Cattle are also a major contributor to land degradation and pollution of water, the report says.
The livestock business, the report says, is among the...
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