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Peter Lehner: Cows, Corn And Crap

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We may think that we re just eating our dinner tonight but when you multiply it by all of that food every day every day of the year everyone in the country everybody in the world it s a tremendous production Just to give you a sense in the US we slaughter about 18 000 animals every minute for food just in the United States – Peter Lehner Agriculture and our food system are responsible for about a third of greenhouse gas emissions Yet the food system gets left out of too many climate conversations and the industry is rarely held accountable I asked Peter Lehner to come on the show and explain what agriculture s role is in climate and how and why they are so often left off the hook Peter is one of the leading experts on the impact of agriculture and climate change He directs Earth Justice s Sustainable Food and Farming program developing litigation administrative and legislative strategies to promote a more just and environmentally sound agriculture system and to reduce health environmental and climate harms from the production of our food He is also the author of farming for Our Future The Science Law and Policy of Climate Neutral Agriculture He also teaches at Columbia and Yale Law schools Please listen and share Click here to visit this podcast episode

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