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Mongabay: Herd of cattle in the Brazilian Amazon. Research has shown that most of the deforestation in the Amazon has led to cattle ranching. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler.
Meat consumption and production remains on the rise, according to a new report Worldwatch Institute, with large-scale environmental impacts especially linked to the spread of factory farming. According to the report, global meat production has tripled since 1970, and jumped by 20 percent since 2000 with consumption rising significantly faster......
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Meat consumption jumps 20 percent in last decade with super-sized environmental impacts
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 11th, 2011
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