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No, but animal agriculture (via disproportionate habitat destruction) threatens the extinction of many species.

• macintux 8y ago
  Animal agriculture is in general extremely wasteful and destructive, but it's conceptually vastly easier to stop hunting a few hundred whales by a few countries than to effectively tell everyone in the world they need to become vegetarian.
• komali2 8y ago
  But habitat destruction happens from farming cotton and coffee and sugar as well... So wouldn't it make more sense to pinpoint the issue (habitat destruction/species extinction) rather than cast a wide net over all meat eating?
  • elif 8y ago
    Animal capture in the US alone requires enough agricultural land for feed that the world's hunger problem (815M [0]) could be virtually erased by using that existing farm land for plant agriculture (800M in 1997 [1]). The tropical deforestation cycle is generally understood as: new roads lead to new accessible timber land. That land is then logged legally and illegally and abandoned. Hunger issues push sustenance farmers to slash-and-burn the cleared and abandoned areas for animal agriculture. So, indeed, unless cotton and coffee and sugar behaviors can feasibly resolve hunger issues, it does make sense to focus on animal agriculture. [0] https://www.actionagainsthunger.org/world-hunger-facts-statistics https://www.actionagainsthunger.org/world-hunger-facts-stati... [1] http://news.cornell.edu/stories/1997/08/us-could-feed-800-million-people-grain-livestock-eat http://news.cornell.edu/stories/1997/08/us-could-feed-800-mi...