All in all common activities such as eating at a barbecue, buying sausages or preparing a meat loaf are a very expensive cost to the environment. ... "Livestock accounts for 20 % of the total terrestrial animal biomass " ( Hoekstra ) , also causing the deforestation of fauna and flora on these areas to be replaced by crops and animals of livestock. ​... Organic and inorganic products of livestock, which consist of animal waste as manure from cows, poultry, pigs as well as fertilizers, pesticides, antibiotics, hormones and other waste, are devastating to aquatic ecosystems, as it helps the ...

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