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First Name: Zheng
Last Name: Liang
Email Address: lawrence Liang
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Subject: Livestock is a marjor reason of global warming

Comment:

It is great to know that you as a govenment officials take the
iniate to act on this issue of global warming, I was encouraged by
you and appreciated your great effort. That's the government that
we people need.

After went through your plan, I have found out a big loop hole in
the whole act, that is you missed the big picture of the whole
issue: the main reason to cause the global warming. If you check
all the publication from Nasa Website, Many sicientist have
already prooved that the most contribution of the global warming
is from live stock industry, meat eating of us is the real reason
behind it. Only if we know about the truth, then we can find the
right way to solve the problems. Vegetarianism is the best way to
stop the global warming.

According to Senior UN Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO) official Henning Steinfeld,  livestock are one
of the most significant contributors to today's most serious
environmental problems and urgent action is required to
remedy the situation.? The reasons include:

1. The livestock sector generates more greenhouse gas emissions
as measured in CO2 equivalent to 18 percent than transport. It is
also a major source of land and water degradation.

2.Livestock generates 65 percent of human-related nitrous oxide,
which has 296 times the Global Warming Potential (GWP) of CO2.
Most of this comes from manure. And it accounts for respectively
37 percent of all human-induced methane (23 times as warming as
CO2), which is largely produced by the digestive system of
ruminants, and 64 percent of ammonia, which contributes
significantly to acid rain.

3. livestock now use 30 percent of the earth entire land
surface, mostly permanent pasture but also including 33 percent of
the global arable land used to producing feed for livestock, the
report notes. As forests are cleared to create new pastures, it is
a major driver of deforestation, especially in Latin America
where,for example, some 70 percent of former forests in the Amazon
have been turned over to grazing.

4. The livestock business is among the most damaging sectors to
the earth increasingly scarce water resources, contributing
among other things to water pollution, euthropication and the
degeneration of coral reefs. The major polluting agents are animal
wastes, antibiotics and hormones, chemicals from
tanneries,fertilizers and the pesticides used to spray feed
crops.Widespread overgrazing disturbs water cycles, reducing
replenishment of above and below ground water resources.
Significant amounts of water are withdrawn for the production of
feed.

For more detail information about livestock, please click the
below link: www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000448.

Livestock sector is a major greenhouse gas source.  Please do not
ignore it. Only vegetarianism can solve the Crysis. Otherwise, by
2012, the world is going to the point of no return. Human specise
is going to vanish from the earth including all other living
beings. So please add this most important part into your sector or
as a general background of this act.

Thanks for your understanding and acceptance of our suggestions

Zheng Liang

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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2008-08-01 12:30:59