Environment

Animal agriculture is the single largest driver of terrestrial biodiversity loss, through habitat conversion, pollinator decline, and a livestock-dominated global mammal biomass that now dwarfs wild populations.

Cattle ranching and soy-for-feed drive most Amazon and Cerrado forest loss, and policies like the Soy Moratorium and EU Deforestation Regulation are early attempts to break the link between diet and forest clearing.

Food is the largest human pressure on Earth's systems, and the evidence converges on one conclusion — shifting away from animal products is the single highest-leverage environmental choice most people can make.

Animal products use roughly 77% of global farmland while supplying only 18% of calories and 37% of protein — making land the clearest single lens on the environmental cost of livestock.

Animal agriculture is responsible for roughly 14–20% of global greenhouse-gas emissions and is the dominant human use of land.

Industrial fishing has depleted a third of assessed marine stocks, scraped seabeds at continental scale, and turned aquaculture into an extension of wild-catch pressure — with bycatch, ghost gear, and dead zones compounding the damage.

Animal products dominate agricultural water use, with beef requiring around 15,000 litres per kilogram and regional scarcity hotspots driven heavily by feed and forage crops.