Deforestation
Animal agriculture destroys thousands of acres of forests that help purify the air, reduce carbon  dioxide, and that are home to many species of animals, birds, and plants. According to the UN, “In the Amazon, cattle ranching is now the primary reason for deforestation.”
Large-scale dietary change to a plant-based diet could actually reverse deforestation. In the US, over 400 million acres of pasture and range land could be reforested1.
Hundreds of millions of additionalacres goes to growing feed for livestock, most of which could bereforested if the land was used directly to feed people instead of animals. It is estimated that one acre of trees is preserved each year by each individual who switches to a completely plant-based diet. |
