Humans' beef with livestock: a warmer planet | csmonitor.com
They don't want much, these global warming folks. All we have to do is abandon our cars and walk everywhere, live in the dark, and switch from meat to mung bean burgers. It would be a lot like the Middle Ages, except without the roast beef.

As Congress begins to tackle the causes and cures of global warming, the action focuses on gas-guzzling vehicles and coal-fired power plants, not on lowly bovines. Yet livestock are a major emitter of greenhouse gases that cause climate change. And as meat becomes a growing mainstay of human diet around the world, changing what we eat may prove as hard as changing what we drive.