1 Where’s the Beef?: Meat Consumption, Environmental Organizations, and Global Climate Change 1 Vasile Stanescu Talk at the Chi Interdisciplinary Conference on Global Climate and the Environment: Sponsored by the Wood Institute for the Environment, Stanford, CA, 2011 (Invited) The livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global. The findings of this report suggest that it should be a major policy focus when dealing with problems of land degradation, climate change and air pollution, water shortage and water pollution, and loss of biodiversity. Livestock's contribution to environmental problems is on a massive scale, and its potential contribution to their solution is equally large. The impact is so significant that it needs to be addressed with urgency." —Executive Summary, Livestock's Long Shadow, Report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, 2006 1 I would like to thank the Culture and Animal Foundation for helping to fund both the research and writing of this article. And finally I would like to thank Professor Ursula Heise, whose work, friendship, and mentorship infuses all of my research.