Oversimplification. Eating meat does not cause deforestation, cutting down trees does. There are other, more sustainable ways to feed cattle.
Don't blame the average consumer for an issue much bigger than their own individual contributions.
Don't blame the average consumer for an issue much bigger than their own individual contributions.
I don't get how people think this is supposed to work. It's like they just want to not take any responsibility whatsoever for how their behavior affects the world. Where do you think the change is going to come from if no one is willing to alter their lifestyle?
From the article:
"As we explore in more detail in our related article, countries tend to follow a predictable development in forest cover, a U-shaped curve.5 They lose forests as populations grow and demand for agricultural land and fuel increases, but eventually they reach the so-called ‘forest transition point’ where they begin to regrow more forests than they lose."
We are feeding over 70 billions of land animals for our appetite, nothing about that is sustainable.