There’s a post going around about jaw the wwf says like 60% of biodiversity loss is because of meat based diets. Do you do debunkings? Cuz that doesn’t seem correct

zoologicallyobsessed:

agro-carnist:

Can I get a link to the statement?

As something studying zoology on an agricultural college campus I can tell you now that that is completely false.  

Anyone that understands biodiversity would know that there’s no one major driver of loss to biodiversity, let alone one that causes up to 60% of all loss. How would you even accurately measure that in the first place, it’s all very questionable. 

Biodiversity loss is a combination of multiple, interacting causes. The main causes being; habitat change, climate change, invasive species, over-exploitation, and pollution. 

In fact meat production isn’t even the worse agricultural process in terms of effect on environment or biodiversity. Palm oil production is much worse.

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Not to mention vegans / other people that claim ‘meat based diets’ are the main cause of environmental issues (biodiversity, pollution, deforestation, ect.) never make the distinction that all the negative effects from meat production is actually statistics for beef cattle. 

It’s not “meat-based diets” that are the issue (no matter how much they want to push that agenda) it’s cattle, which are currently unsustainability produced; due to the pollution they produce, area and time they take to raise. The solution to this is to push for alternative sources of meat that are more sustainable. 

It’s a classic example of pushing a vegan / anti-meat agenda through twisting facts.