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Meat consumption is the primary driver in loss of biodiversity: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969715303697 http://www.sciencedirect.com/

• stellar678 9y ago
  There really isn't a conflict between the fact that ruminants can provide an important ecological service to grasslands, and the fact that CAFOS/meat factories cause ecosystem devastation. The problem is that our economic system doesn't have a clear way to account for the ecological costs of one approach vs the ecological benefits of the other, so good meat is expensive and bad meat is cheap. Whoops.