A meat-centered diet requires far more land than a vegetarian one. How much more? 10-20x more!
Raising animals for food (including land used for grazing and growing feed crops) now uses a staggering 30% of the Earth’s land mass.
Raising animals for food (including land used for grazing and growing feed crops) now uses a staggering 30% of the Earth’s land mass.
30%
70%
70% of the grain grown is fed to farmed animals. Imagine how many people we could feed with that food.
80%
Nearly 80% of land deforested in the Amazon is now used as cattle pasture.
To produce one pound of animal protein vs. one pound of soy protein, it takes about 12 times as much land, 13 times as much fossil fuel, and 15 times as much water.