The National Pork Producers Council is supporting legislation that backs a private carbon credit offset market. The Senate Ag Committee held a hearing Wednesday examining the Growing Climate Solutions Act. Nebraska Pork Producer’s Association’s Executive Director Al Juhnke says this measure gives all producers an opportunity to show how much they benefit the environment and can improve that footprint. He says pork producers already are having a positive impact on the climate.
He says America’s pork producers have used 75.9 percent less land, 25.1 percent less water and 7 percent less energy since 1960.
Juhnke says the Environmental Protection Agency has noted that the production of US.. pork is responsible for only 0.3 percent of all agriculture greenhouse gas emissions in the country. He says that’s counter to what animal activists have been arguing as they try to stop pork and cattle production with their mis information.
Juhnke is hopeful the Growing Climate Solutions Act will get good traction in the Senate, then get sent over to the House and approved there and sent to the President for his signature.
