This is another thank-you post for my paid subscribers, and I’ve filled it with research, facts and figures you can use to back up your pro-veggie arguments with the naysayers in your life. But I’m leaving the info-graphic above the paywall, so even if you’re just seeing the free preview, you can download it.
What harm is there in a steak?
From the year 2000 on, our beautiful planet has lost approximately 5 million hectares of forest every year. (That’s 12,355,270 or twelve million, three hundred fifty-five thousand, two hundred and seventy acres, gone every single year.)
75% of that forest has been cleared due to animal agriculture, and 41% of it for beef alone. Palm oil and soybeans account for another 18%; and logging for paper and wood, another 13%. (Ritchie and Roser)