4. “ By far the most important non-CO2 greenhouse gas is methane, and the number one source of methane worldwide is animal agriculture.” Environmental Protection Agency, 2004, http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/publications/ emissions
5. “ Methane is responsible for nearly as much global warming as all other non-CO2 greenhouse gases put together.” Hansen, James E. and Makiko Sato, “Trends of measured climate forcing agents”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2001, http://www.pnas.org/cgi/ content/full/98/26/14778
6. = Dr. David Pimentel, ecologist, 1997 http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Aug97/livestock.hrs.html
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