> while I'm being told to ... stop eating meat

> I have to watch the Amazon being chopped down

https://ourworldindata.org/drivers-of-deforestation

The research suggests that by far the largest driver of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has been driven by the expansion of pasture land for beef production, soy is likely to have played at least some role in the loss of forest.

More than three-quarters (77%) of global soy is fed to livestock for meat and dairy production. Just 7% of soy is used directly for human food products such as tofu, soy milk, edamame beans, and tempeh.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/environment/weve-lost-35-pe...

The Southern Brazilian Amazon has lost 30 percent of its forests, and if the destruction doesn’t stop, the area will lose 56 percent of its forests by 2050.
Environmental scientists argue the loss of the Amazon will have a global impact ...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/19/colombia...

Cattle, not coca, drive deforestation of the Amazon in Colombia – report

https://phys.org/news/2022-08-global-forest-area-capita-decr...

New study finds global forest area per capita has decreased by over 60%

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/jun/02/t...

The multinational companies that industrialised the Amazon rainforest

Ranching is the biggest driver of deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions after land grabbing, with which it is often closely associated. By 2018, the Brazilian Amazon had lost 741,759 sq km (about 286,000 sq miles) of its original forest cover, mainly due to agricultural expansion. This accelerated during the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro, when forest clearance increased by 59.5%, the fastest rate since at least 1988. More than 2bn trees were cut or burned.

The soya sector is another powerhouse in the region. Between 2014 and 2020, five multinational food companies – Bunge, Cargill, ADM, Amaggi and Louis Dreyfus – extracted soya worth $18bn on global markets ...

https://earth.org/major-companies-responsible-for-deforestat...

13 Major Companies Responsible for Deforestation

1. Cargill (soy & beef)

3. Wilmar International Ltd. (soy)

4. Walmart (palm oil, pulp and paper, soy, and beef)

5. JBS (beef)

6. IKEA

9. Starbucks

10. McDonald’s

11. Yum! Brands (KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell)

13. Ahold (meat)

https://news.mongabay.com/2023/05/3-million-hectares-of-colo...

3 million hectares of Colombian Amazon deforested for illegal pasture: Study

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/02/more-tha...

More than 800m Amazon trees felled in six years to meet beef demand

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26231772/

Biodiversity conservation: The key is reducing meat consumption

https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/15/4110/htm

Which Diet Has the Least Environmental Impact on Our Planet? A Systematic Review of Vegan, Vegetarian and Omnivorous Diets

https://ourworldindata.org/carbon-opportunity-costs-food

What are the carbon opportunity costs of our food?

https://www.wri.org/insights/without-changing-diets-agricult...

Without Changing Diets, Agriculture Alone Could Produce Enough Emissions to Surpass 1.5°C of Global Warming

... and many more ...

> some how it's something I'm doing wrong?

You have to answer that.