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Study has a big beef over agriculture’s vast polluting

Large U.S. meat and dairy companies, along with livestock and agricultural lobbying groups, have spent billions sowing doubt about the links between animal agriculture and climate change, according to new research from New York University. In addition, while animal agriculture accounts for 14.5% of …