Depending on where one lives in the United States, the meat consumed each year could be responsible for a level of greenhouse-gas emissions that's similar to what's emitted to power a residential house.
Meat-consumption 'carbon hoofprint' revealed
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The link of urban food consumption with rural counties that grow animal feed, raise animals and process animals has the biggest impact on hoofprint size.
The per capita carbon hoofprint — greenhouse gas emissions associated with meat consumption per resident — varies greatly over cities throughout the United States.
Combining a variety of individual actions has the potential to shrink the country's urban carbon hoofprint by half.
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