On October 3, Dr. Frank Mitlohener spoke at the Auburn University College of Agriculture’s E.T. York Distinguished Lecturer Series in a talk titled Myths and Misconceptions about a Climate Footprint of Animal Agriculture. His talk clarified common misconceptions about the climate impact of animal agriculture, addressing its carbon footprint in relation to total greenhouse gas emissions and how methane’s short-lived nature impacts quantifying emissions.
Dr. Frank Mitloehner spoke to Ash Sweeting on the Ash Cloud Podcast, discussing the changing conversation about methane, the role of farmers in the climate solution, and the challenges and opportunities around research in methane mitigation.
Agricultural producers face many pressures and challenges. With a growing population that will demand more food, and a strained climate that requires attention and adjustment of practices, it is difficult to know right from wrong and fact from fiction.
Billing their show as “ag like you’ve never seen or heard it before” and the place “where food news and pop culture collide,” millennials and farmers Natalie Kovarik and Tara Vander Dussen are in cyberspace each week with provocative, enlightening and entertaining convos that shed light on the what, the where and the how of our food supply.
Not only do exaggerated claims against animal protein such as meat distract us from major polluters, they blind us to potential climate change solutions.
