The report Livestock's Long Shadow was cited by campaigners urging consumers to eat less meat to save the planet, as well as by leading figures in the climate change establishment. But a new analysis, presented at a US science meeting, said linking of livestock production to 18 per cent of carbon emission, more than transport, was “flawed”, the BBC reported. Mr Frank Mitloehner from the University of California at Davis said the report, published by the Food and Agriculture Organisation reached the 18 per cent figure by totting up all greenhouse-gas emissions associated with meat production, including fertiliser production, land clearance, methane emissions from animals, and vehicle use on farms. But the authors did not calculate transport emissions in the same way, instead using the IPCC's figure, which only included fossil fuel burning. One of the report’s authors, FAO livestock policy officer Mr Pierre Gerber, said he accepted Mr Mitloehner's criticism. “He has a point - we factored in everything for meat emissions, and we didn't do the same thing with transport,” he said. FAO is now working on a much more comprehensive analysis of emissions from food production, he said. PTI