Expect to see attacks in particular on the beef industry. Beef contributes disproportionately to global warming:
Carnivore’s Dilemma - National Geographic
See table on page 2 of article: Beef production generates 9.6 Kilograms of CO2 per 1000 calories worth of productions. Pork by contrast generates only 2.0 K per 1000 calories, dairy is at 1.9, poultry at 1.7, and eggs only 1.5. So beef is about 6.4 times worse than eggs. The emissions are largely from belching and flatulence of the cattle.
And on an interesting side note from the article, the 50 million bison that roamed North America prior to the arrival of the white man emitted even more greenhouse gasses than cattle do today:
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Originally Posted by Nat'l Geographic
According to an estimate by A. N. Hristov of Penn State, the 50 million bison that roamed North America before settlers arrived emitted more methane than beef cattle do today.
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So it turns out that the white hunters who slaughtered the bison by the hundreds of thousands with their Sharps rifles in the 19th century, almost driving the buffalo to extinction, were actually being good environmental stewards! Who'd of thunk?
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