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		agarren on Oct 28, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Wild mammal biomass has declined by 85% since the ... Clearing huge swaths of Brazilian rainforest, “the lungs of the planet”, to make way for cattle seems like a pretty significant contributing factor though, would you agree? Less demand for meat, less demand for eliminating large pieces of a rather important natural carbon sink.

chriswarbo on Oct 28, 2022 [–]

Even more maddening: clearing land for growing crops, which are fed to cattle.

We can just cut out the middle man (cow)

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