Peter Lehner: Cows, Corn and Crap

Species Unite

elizabeth novogratz

Society & Culture, Philosophy

5 • 911 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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"We may think that we're just eating our dinner tonight, but when you multiply it by all of that food every day, every day of the year, everyone in the country, everybody in the world, it's a tremendous production. Just to give you a sense, in the US, we slaughter about 18,000 animals every minute for food just in the United States." - Peter Lehner

Agriculture and our food system are responsible for about a third of greenhouse gas emissions. Yet the food system gets left out of too many climate conversations and the industry is rarely held accountable.

I asked Peter Lehner to come on the show and explain what agriculture's role is in climate, and how and why they are so often left off the hook. Peter is one of the leading experts on the impact of agriculture and climate change. He directs Earth Justice's Sustainable Food and Farming program, developing litigation, administrative and legislative strategies to promote a more just and environmentally sound agriculture system and to reduce health, environmental and climate harms from the production of our food. He is also the author of farming for Our Future The Science, Law and Policy of Climate Neutral Agriculture. He also teaches at Columbia and Yale Law schools.

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0:00.0	Species.
0:09.0	Unite.
0:10.0	We may think that we're just eating our dinner tonight, but when you multiply it by all of that food every day, every day of the year, everyone in the
0:23.3	country, everybody in the world, it's a tremendous production.
0:27.5	Just to give you a sense in the U.S., we slaughter about 18,000 animals every minute for food,
0:35.0	just in the United States.
0:37.1	So I can't even calculate how many animals have
0:39.9	been slaughtered in slaughterhouses in the United States just since we started this podcast.
0:53.1	Hi, I'm Elizabeth Novagrats.
0:55.4	This is Species Unite.
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1:16.6	Agriculture and our food system are responsible for about a third of greenhouse gas emissions.
1:26.0	Yet, the food system gets left out of many climate
1:28.9	conversations and the industry is rarely held accountable. So I asked Peter Lainer to come on the show
1:35.8	and explain what agriculture's role is in climate and how and why they're so often left off the hook.
1:43.3	Peter is one of the leading experts on the impact of
1:45.6	agriculture and climate change. He directs Earth Justice's Sustainable Food and Farming Program,
1:51.6	developing litigation, administrative, and legislative strategies to promote a more just
1:56.6	and environmentally sound agriculture system and to reduce health, environmental, and climate harms
2:02.2	from the production of our food. He's also the author of Farming for Our Future, the Science Law and
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