Dear colleagues,
This is a very good report, many thanks. There is so much to be learned from the report, e.g. about the costs of red meat consumption and of food waste.
Paragraph 9 says that "Globally, livestock production employs 1.3 billion people". This seems too high. The ILO reports that total employment in agriculture is about 1 billion (www.fao.org/docrep/015/i2490e/i2490e01b.pdf); and this is broadly consistent with World Bank data (http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.AGR.EMPL.ZS). If this is right, then the number of people employed in livestock production should be substantially less than 1 billion, shouldn't it?
With all good wishes,
Thomas Pogge
Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs
Yale University, PO Box 208306, New Haven, CT 06520-8306
pantheon.yale.edu/~tp4
www.ted.com/speakers/thomas_pogge.html
This is a very good report, many thanks. There is so much to be learned from the report, e.g. about the costs of red meat consumption and of food waste.
Paragraph 9 says that "Globally, livestock production employs 1.3 billion people". This seems too high. The ILO reports that total employment in agriculture is about 1 billion (www.fao.org/docrep/015/i2490e/i2490e01b.pdf); and this is broadly consistent with World Bank data (http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.AGR.EMPL.ZS). If this is right, then the number of people employed in livestock production should be substantially less than 1 billion, shouldn't it?
With all good wishes,
Thomas Pogge
Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs
Yale University, PO Box 208306, New Haven, CT 06520-8306
pantheon.yale.edu/~tp4
www.ted.com/speakers/thomas_pogge.html
