NATURE & THE LIVING WORLD
Should we eat less meat if it meant protecting the diversity of life on Earth?
WHAT IS ESTABLISHED
Agriculture is listed as a threat to about 24,000 of the roughly 28,000 species assessed as threatened with extinction.
IUCN RED LIST ASSESSMENT, VIA BENTON ET AL., CHATHAM HOUSE, 2021 · VERIFIED 2026-07-14
Beef production alone drives roughly 41% of tropical deforestation.
PENDRILL ET AL., SCIENCE, 2022 · VERIFIED 2026-07-14
About half of habitable land is farmed and roughly 80% of that farmland is used for livestock, which supplies around 17% of calories and 38% of protein.
POORE & NEMECEK, SCIENCE, 2018 (VIA OUR WORLD IN DATA) · VERIFIED 2026-07-14
Facts come from an independent named panel. What to do about them is yours.
YOUR ANSWER
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