When food companies destroy forests for meat, they risk releasing the next global pandemic - putting all of our lives in danger.
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UK brands like Tesco and Burger King broke their promise to stop destroying forests for their food by 2020 - and continue to buy meat from forest destroyers today
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Across Brazil an area almost equivalent to the size of the UK has burned so far this year.
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Of all the mammals in the world, only 4% are wild, the rest are livestock (60%) and humans (36%).
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Indigenous People are being violently driven off their lands and even killed if they try to resist the companies destroying forests
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Of the 263 million tonnes of meat produced globally, 20% of it is lost or wasted. That’s the equivalent of 75 million cows.
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The Amazon is perilously close to an irreversible tipping point. Scientists say in the next 10-15 years the forest will no longer be able to produce enough rain to sustain itself and will turn into a dry grassland, releasing billions of tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere
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