• @Morgoon
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    296 months ago

    41% of the land in the US is used for meat production, and 1/3rd globally. The Amazon rainforest is being slashed and burned for cattle farming. Animal agriculture means habitat destruction and is a large part of why 21 species were declared extinct in the US this past year. We can and must fight them both.

    • @psud@lemmy.world
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      -96 months ago

      But it’s the marginal land, where food plants can’t grow or where it’s too steep for mechanical harvesters to work