It's a driving force behind tropical rain forest destruction. Meat eating is incompatible with environmentalism. A pure vegetarian spares one acre of trees a year. They are not farms at all. They are large warehouses where animals are confined under unimaginable conditions.
Animal agriculture is exempt from the Animal Welfare Act and most state anti-cruelty laws.
Billions of animals live lives of misery and pain to supply us with flesh foods that we don't need, and which in fact cause many health problems, and in the process we pollute this Earth. Think about this. Let's all do what we can.