> I see people who are against animal abuse are down voting

There, I fixed it for you.

Sorry not sorry your relative was almost killed by the animals they were exploiting and abusing for profit.

Vegans aren't to blame for people identifying and acknowledging the cows are not the assholes in your story.

We can start holding ourselves accountable too.

It's a bit silly to blame the corporations that are destroying our planet while concurrently paying them to do it several times a day.

This suggestion is great, because it literally requires everyone to do absolutely nothing, thus resulting in zero change. All while they pat themselves on the back and congratulate themselves.

Ah, yes, the typical "my actions do not matter" response in the face of simple information. 🙄

Keep deluding yourself that it's OK to finance ecological destruction across the globe just for your temporary moment of pleasure. 👍

Again, these industries exist only to feed consumers, but you are so eager to ignore that fact, alongside the long list of variables that you ignored in your comment. Your comment literally only focuses on land use and ignores how animal agriculture is just raping and pillaging our planet across tons of other variables.

Keep financing these industries to destroy our planet then put on your shocked pikachu face when you see articles like the one OP posted. 🙄

In the Amazon alone, 80% of current destruction is driven by the cattle sector.

The rainforests are being cut down to feed the world meat.

Animal agriculture is also what is responsible for the mass extinctions of wildlife.

> “A vegan diet is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, not just greenhouse gases, but global acidification, eutrophication, land use and water use,” said Joseph Poore, at the University of Oxford, UK, who led the research. “It is far bigger than cutting down on your flights or buying an electric car,” he said, as these only cut greenhouse gas emissions."

The new research shows that without meat and dairy consumption, global farmland use could be reduced by more than 75% – an area equivalent to the US, China, European Union and Australia combined – and still feed the world. Loss of wild areas to agriculture is the leading cause of the current mass extinction of wildlife.

I find it sad that in all of these threads, there is never any mention of animal agriculture or it's responsibility in the picture.

Animal agriculture is what is driving the mass extinctions of wildlife we are seeing in nature, it is causing ocean dead zones, driving climate change, responsible for 80% of the deforestation of the Amazon rain forest, destroying ecologies across the globe, killing indigenous tribes to take their lands, it's responsible for most of the plastic in our oceans, etc etc.

I really don't understand why I'm the only person in this entire thread who has to bring these issues up.

The shareholders are not the only ones responsible for the mass extinctions of wildlife we are seeing.

Animal agriculture is responsible for the mass extinctions we are facing and those industries would not be possible without their consumers financing them for it. These industries aren't digging up the bones of our planet just for fun, they do it for your dollars.

The real culprits are all of the people who are continuing to eat meat and animal products, since they are financing these industries to destroy our planet, several times a day.

edit: Yep, keep downvoting as if it changes the truth.

And yet, most people are perfectly happy financing the industries who are responsible for the mass extinctions of wildlife we are seeing in nature. Most people are financing these industries several times a day.

> “A vegan diet is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, not just greenhouse gases, but global acidification, eutrophication, land use and water use,” said Joseph Poore, at the University of Oxford, UK, who led the research. “It is far bigger than cutting down on your flights or buying an electric car,” he said, as these only cut greenhouse gas emissions."

The new research shows that without meat and dairy consumption, global farmland use could be reduced by more than 75% – an area equivalent to the US, China, European Union and Australia combined – and still feed the world. Loss of wild areas to agriculture is the leading cause of the current mass extinction of wildlife.

Add animals to the list while you're at it. They don't deserve to be needlessly abused and exploited just for human pleasure.

Not to mention animal agriculture causing several mass extinctions in wildlife currently, killing indigenous people to take their lands, creating several dead zones in our Oceans, driving 80% of the deforestation in the Amazon, etc etc.