Take a look at what your meat is eating...
...and I don't just mean literally!
Livestock grazing leads to the extinction of indigenous plant and animal species through habitat destruction, soil erosion through deforestation, and desertification that renders once-fertile land barren. In fact, it's the number one cause of threatened and endangered species, and has done more to alter the type of vegetation and land forms than all the...
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| Water Projects |
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| Strip Mines |
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| Power Plants |
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| Freeways |
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| and Subdivisions... |
...COMBINED!
- More than 260 Million acres of US forest and land have been cleared to create cropland to grow grain for farm animal feed.
- An area the size of 7 football fields is cleared every minute to make room for grazing cattle.
- 80% of all agricultural land in the US is used by the meat and dairy industry.
That's quite a mouthful!
