There has been massive extinction of species because the animal habitats are destroyed. Scientists realise that forests and grasslands are very important for transferring carbon between the atmosphere, vegetation and soil . However, they point out that the green areas continue to be reduced and depleted to make way for more cattle . The environmental damage that occurs in converting forests to pasture for beef production is well known . The cost of the environment is huge, with little forest regeneration taking place on abandoned grazing land, and the self sustaining rainfall cycle of entire regions is now under threat due to forest destruction.
Researches point out that people's meat diets have contributed to the destruction of rain forests.
Huge areas of vegetation are removed to give way to cattle farming. They alert to the fact that natural marine animals are being reduced by man's poorly conceived fishing practices, including the mining of the oceans. They also say that natural animals are being pushed out by societies predilections for hamburgers. They inform us that forests of all kinds are being cleared to raise the beef for these addictions. With the forests go the natural animals, as well as the oxygen people need for their survival.