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According to this[0] Our World In Data article, which is based on 2018 data, livestock (including fisheries) produces about 15% of all emissions, assuming that animal-based products account for about a third of the supply chain costs of the food industry:

Total food emissions: 26%

Direct livestock + fish: 31% of that 26%

Due to livestock land use: 16% of that 26%

Due to crops for animal feed: 6% of that 26%

Due to supply chain (1/3 of total): (18/3)% of that 26%

Total: ((31+16+6+(18/3))/100)*0.26 = 15.34%

And according to this[1] Our World in Data article, transport makes up about 16.2% of emissions.

The analyses can differ depending on how far you "travel up the chain" of production, but it appears that transportation and animal agriculture are within the same ball-park, plus or minus 5% perhaps.

> Most of the food livestock consume are leftovers of human-grade crops.

This is incorrect. Most livestock feed is soy, and humans can and do eat soybean meal. About 98% of soybean meal is used for animal feed and only 1% is used to produce food for people.[2] For soybeans as a whole, only about 6% grown worldwide are turned directly into food products for human consumption.[3]

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector

[2] https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/where_do_all_these_soybeans_go

[3] https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/soybeans



No, even if most of livestock feed was soy (I am pretty sure it was corn, but whatever), most of the food they are feed as dry matter is not edible by humans: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S22119...

I would like to see where that 98% really comes from, the links you posted talk about 70% (and most of that being consumed by poultry, not cattle). And even that seems excessive [1]. I would love to see a clear separation between the soybean. meal (leftover from oil and soybean grinding) and explicit feed grade soybeans.

[1] https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/coexisten...




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