I share this msg w/ a sense of deep love and compassion for both humans and animals at a time that is opportune for reflecting on, and reframing, our understanding of climate change and the way it intersects with industrial animal agriculture.
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'For those of us heartbroken over the 1 billion devastating losses of native wildlife in Australia due to the bushfires, let us also recognize that the food on our plates had a huge impact on creating changes to the global climate that allowed for these fires to occur on such a massive scale in the first place. We must also recognize that during the very same time frame, of that massive 1 billion loss of life, for which we weep, the meat industry in the US alone killed a staggering 28.5 billion animals. [ Source: Link ]

Not only do the meat, dairy, and seafood industries kill trillions of animals each year, meat/dairy production is one of the leading driver of deforestation, habitat loss, desertification, and species extinction worldwide. It is a major contributor to climate change -- a climate that allowed for the scale and severity of these Australian wildfires to occur. The animals are dying in Australia because of how we eat and how we live. Climate crisis and Food Systems are inextricably linked.

“We are currently witnessing wildlife loss at a rate seen only during mass extinctions.

According to WWF biodiversity research, 60% of Earth's wildlife has been wiped out in just 50 years. If this trend continues, the survival of countless species is under threat, including our own.

Why are wild plants and animals dying out?
In short, we're doing it. And largely, it's in the way we eat.

Across almost all categories of plants and animals, the leading cause of extinction is loss of habitat due to land clearing — and the vast majority of land clearing is to graze cattle for the beef and dairy industries, and to raise crops to feed farmed animals. Currently, almost one-third of the Earth’s surface is used for these purposes alone, with more forest land bulldozed every year.

For fish and other marine animals, the greatest extinction threat is exploitation, or in other words, fishing them to extinction.

The way we currently think about and produce 'food' is having a catastrophic impact on almost all plant and animal species worldwide.” -via Animals Australia
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