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Report Author Says UC-Davis Professor Right

Earlier this week University of California-Davis Professor Frank Mitloehner questioned a UN Food and Agriculture Organization report that suggested livestock are responsible for 18% of greenhouse gas emissions. Now one of the authors of that report is accepting that criticism. stating that Mitloehner has a point.

The authors factored in everything for meat emissions, but didn't do the same thing with transport, using instead the figure from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. That group's projections have been the center of much controversy in recent months.

FAO Livestock Policy Officer Pierre Gerber says a more comprehensive analysis of emissions from food production is now underway and should be complete by the end of the year.