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Farming insects for food also has less environmental impact than livestock farms do because insects emit far less greenhouse gas and use up less space, water, and food.
Insects can also be turned into more sustainable food for livestock and can be reared on organic waste, like vegetable peelings, that might otherwise just end up rotting in landfills.
The climate-related historic drought that started in Syria in 2006 destroyed 60 percent of the farms in Syria, killed 80 percent of the livestock, and drove 1.5 million climate refugees into the cities of Syria, where they collided with another 1.5 million refugees from the Iraq War.
Around the same time as Egyptians were incubating eggs, Phoenician merchants introduced chickens to Europe, where they quickly became an essential part of European livestock.
We have cleared 19.4 million square miles for crops and livestock.
After energy production, livestock is the second-highest contributor to atmosphere-altering gases.
Livestock is also one of the biggest culprits in land degradation, air and water pollution, water shortages and loss of biodiversity.
As I said, 18 percent of greenhouse gases are attributed to livestock production.
How much livestock do you need to produce this?
She calls the system "Recomposition," and we've been doing it with cattle and other livestock for years.
Crops and livestock are being brought to market.
In this book she tells the story, as an example, of how a very nasty insect pest of livestock was eliminated in the last century.
Turns out that farmers in agricultural institutions have been practicing something called livestock mortality composting for decades.
I began designing a system based on the principles of livestock mortality composting that would take human beings and transform them into soil.
We've created a scalable, replicable non-profit urban model based on the science of livestock mortality composting that turns human beings into soil.
Our farms drain the equivalent of 3.3 billion Olympic-sized swimming pools every year, all of it swallowed up by crops and livestock to feed Earth’s growing population.
I felt strangely isolated as pigs and livestock moved into the empty homes.
More than 75 percent of its agriculture and 85 percent of its livestock were wiped out.
Short stocky dogs to herd livestock by nipping their heels; elongated dogs to flush badgers and foxes out of burrows; thin and sleek dogs for racing; and large, muscular dogs for guard duty.
Humans, livestock and pets are now 97 percent of that integrated total mass on earth and all wild nature is three percent.
Today, a handful of corporations continue to consolidate the entire food supply chain, from the intellectual property of seeds to produce and livestock all the way to the financial institutions who lend to these farmers.
And we also need to re-examine livestock.
Some regions have even opened vulture restaurants where farmers safely dispose of drug-free livestock.
Not just because of the cesspools, but also the sheer number of livestock in the city would shock people.
Now, BuzzFeed had recently signed on to the Facebook Live experiment, and so naturally, we decided to livestream the whole event on the internet to capture the moment when Ze would walk in and discover livestock in his office.
And the way I sold livestock jobs is I showed off my drawings, I showed off pictures of things.
Farmers were driven off their land, and crops and livestock were destroyed or stolen.
Our livestock was almost at the brink of extinction, protected as well.
Here's what he said: "Ten thousand years ago, at the dawn of agriculture, human population, plus livestock and pets, was approximately a tenth of one percent of the terrestrial vertebrate landmass."
And although we have millions of smallholder farmers rearing animals, livestock production is not as easy as we think.
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