Meat and dairy giants feed climate crisis by dragging their heels on methane
theguardian.comA failure to take action on methane emissions by the world’s biggest meat and dairy companies is fuelling the climate crisis, say campaigners who have compiled the first ranking of what the animal protein sector is doing about the short-lived but potent greenhouse gas. Livestock generate about 32% of anthropogenic, or human-generated, methane, mainly from the planet’s billion-plus cattle.
The new ranking, published today, names the three worst-performing meat and dairy corporations as two French companies – Groupe Bigard and Lactalis – and the Japanese company Itoham. The ranking was based on an examination of the companies’ climate targets “to see if they had any methane action plans or reporting and to see what research they were doing”,
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