One of the main agents that cause the enormous drain on crucial environmental resources is the meat industry. In order to sustain such a high level industry it requires huge quantities of land and water to grow grains to feed the animals. The industrialized livestock agricultural business takes up 30% of the globally ice free terrestrial land. Raising, feeding and slaughtering the livestock cause 8% of global freshwater to be consumed. Global demand for meat in general causes this influx industry to feed on limited sources

 *This blog was created to shine light on the negative environmental impacts the meat industry is having on our ecosystems. *

Above is an image of the amazon rain forest. It is evident that deforestation has taken a toll on the ecosystem within the rain forest, in fact in the last 40 years approximately 20% of the forest has been cut down, and it predicted that in just 2 more decades an additional 20% will be deforested as well. 70% of all deforestation in the rain forest is due to the global demand on the meat industry.