Commercial cattle farming is the biggest agricultural contributor to global warming/climate change, due to the amount of cleared land it requires to raise and feed them. Cattle farming often results in deforestation and diversion of water resources that can, and does, harm local ecosystems.
It was big news a couple years ago where massive swaths of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil were being cut down for cattle farming, most of which is being exported to China and other pacific region countries.
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