Postproduction greenhouse gas emissions, while significant, have not been comprehensively catalogued in the United States.20
The main contributors to emissions beyond the farm gate are energy expenditures associated with food processing, packaging, marketing, and distribution. Food waste contributes to emissions indirectly, through emissions resulting from the production, distribution, and marketing of the wasted food, and directly, through methane emissions from landfills. The food waste discussion below is limited to landfill emissions, since reductions in indirect contributions are susceptible to leakage and are difficult to track.21 In contrast, efforts to divert food waste
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from landfills are relatively easy to monitor, and to implement, as several state and local governments have shown.
More on the topic Postproduction greenhouse gas emissions, while significant, have not been comprehensively catalogued in the United States.20:
- 2. U.S. Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- 3. State-Level Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- 1. Global Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- A. Upstream: Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Farm Inputs
- A. Agricultural Systems and Practices for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- At first glance, reducing net agricultural greenhouse gas emissions through public law poses a considerable challenge.
- E. Greenhouse Gas Pricing
- Methane and nitrous oxide are the two main greenhouse gases emitted by agricultural sources. EPA has several direct regulatory tools available to reduce emissions of these greenhouse gases, including recognizing the harm or “endangerment” caused by these pollutants and promulgating regulatory programs to require or support their reduction.
- A Brief History of Meat in the United States
- Roman law in the United States
- Conventional agriculture in the United States relies heavily on fossil fuels.
- During his inaugural address as the fortieth president of the United States of America in January 1980, Ronald Reagan spoke of the ‘economic ills we [Americans] suffer that have come upon us over several decades’
- Congress’ expressed purpose for supporting agricultural research and extension is not only to increase the productivity of agriculture,7 but also to “[maintain and enhance] the natural resource base on which rural America and the United States agricultural economy depend.”8
- In August of 2018, Missouri became the first state in the United States to regulate the labeling of artificial meat, with a statute defining meat as something “derived from harvested production livestock or poultry.”1
- 8.2 THE UNITED NATIONS, THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOVEREIGNTY
- 2. Landfill Waste Emissions
- 1. Emissions From Fertilizer Production
- From the perspective of political theory, the history of international law may be seen as a significant and underexplored aspect of a broader phenomenon: