Not only does the meat industry detriment our forests, it also has a negative effect on our water sources. It has become evident that we are running out of freshwater sources, this has been a byproduct of many man-made induced environmental issues, such as overexploitation. However, the meat industry is another detriment to our freshwater sources and are also diminishing our finite resources.

*The crops we plant to feed the livestock consume 56% of the water in the US, and 30-33% of all freshwater is consumed by animal agriculture.*

The above picture shows the impact of the overexploitation of our freshwater sources. This impact is evident in places such as California. Many corporations are constantly pumping ground water to support the agriculture and livestock globally, thus, leading to deforestation. Deforestation is detrimental to an ecosystem as it completely dries up the ecosystem, killing several species, and is an irreversible impact. Globalization intensifies the impacts on the environment at an astounding rate. Because we've become such a technological and borderless world, we are continuously importing and exporting goods to different regions of the world; this inevitably worsens the situation.