What’s at Steak? Impacts of the industrial livestock and feedstock sector on forests, biodiversity, farmers and communities

By Mary Louise Malig, Global Forest Coalition This piece was originally published by the CBD Alliance for the newsletter, ECO, particularly, ECO Volume 54, Issue 4 Wednesday, 6 Dec. 2016 A new report “What’s at Steak? The real cost of meat” – launched at COP13 – aims to expose the many ways in which industrial livestock farming is impacting our health, lives, forests, biodiversity and the environment, and to argue that – precisely because it does cause so many problems …