{"id":73642,"date":"2019-12-31T18:39:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T18:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=73642"},"modified":"2019-12-31T18:39:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T18:39:01","slug":"animal-agriculture-costs-more-health-damage-it-contributes-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/animal-agriculture-costs-more-health-damage-it-contributes-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Agriculture Costs More In Health Damage Than It Contributes To The Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. farms cost the economy more in health and environmental damage than they contribute to the economy, according to a recent study in the Publication of the National Academy of the Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>For 20 economic sectors, the study compares the cost of premature deaths from particulate air pollution to the value added to the economy. Farms performed worst, driven down by animal agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the margin, we&#8217;re seeing that the damages from air pollution provided by farms are larger than the marginal value that the farms provide in economic terms,\u201d said co-author In\u00eas M.L. Azevedo, an associate professor in Stanford University\u2019s Department of Energy Resources Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<a data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/116\/40\/19857\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/116\/40\/19857\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a>, conducted with researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, focuses on&nbsp;<a data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/pm-pollution\" href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/pm-pollution\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">particulate pollution<\/a>, including PM 2.5, which the EPA has identified as the cause of 90 percent of the 100,000 annual premature deaths in the U.S. from air pollution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. farms cost the economy more in health and environmental damage than they contribute to the economy, according to a recent study in the Publication of the National Academy of the Sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":66807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - 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