How Cattle Ranching Destroys Earth’s Food Webs

How Cattle Ranching Destroys Earth’s Food Webs

Beef production has steadily been rising over the last half-century. Unfortunately, so has the environmental destruction that it causes. Cattle ranching requires the wholesale eradication of natural habitats, and this eradication causes immeasurable damage to an essential component of Earth’s overall ecosystem: food webs.“Cattle are not native to the U.S. and did not evolve with our ecosystems here,” Jennifer Molidor, senior food campaigner at t…