This is all the rainforest

Every minute we lose 23 football fields of forest 🪓 Why? The short answer: because growing food requires a LOT of space. Around half of the land where plants can grow is used for food production. But it doesn’t have to be this way. And 80% of the land is for animal foods (in the form of grazing and cropland), even though they only provide 17% of all calories. The argument that grass-fed beef is better doesn’t really work because this deforestation happens specifically for grasslands. So if we eat less meat - especially beef - we can drastically reduce the amount of space we need for food production and bring back a lot of forest. Sources: This video represents ‚tropical deforestation‘. Because that’s pretty much where all deforestation happens. Hannah Ritchie (2021) - “Deforestation and Forest Loss” Published online at Our World in Data Pendrill, F., Person, U. M., Godar, J., & Kastner, T. (2019). Deforestation displaced: trade in forest-risk commodities and the prospects for a global forest transition. Environmental Research Letters, 14(5), 055003. Land use beans vs beef: Poore, J., & Nemecek, T. (2018). Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers. *Science*, *360*(6392), 987-992. Soy: Food Climate Research Network (FCRN), University of Oxford; and USDAPSD Database.