DESERTIFICATION RESOURCES
Building our diets around GREEN-RATED foods is the most effective way to reverse desertification - a term that describes the process where fertile land turns into desert. The result is soil that is unfit for most forms of life, including both livestock and crops. The primary cause of desertification is deforestation from cattle ranching, but poor farming practices can also be a driver. As the demand for destructive animal products and crops grows with the human population, so does the global incidence of desertification. The best way to save soil and forests is to stop consuming RED-RATED foods, especially beef, and share this information with others.
ARTICLES
Desertification
Learn about the problem and its causes.
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Desertification
Get the facts on desertification and its roots in animal agriculture.
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Desertification
Understand how livestock puts stress on marginal lands.
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The Cowboy and the Desertification of the West
Find out how ranchers use taxpayer dollars to suck the land dry.
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Saving the World With Livestock—the Savory approach examined
Read a comprehensive rebuttal of intensive animal agriculture claims.
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Overgrazing and Desertification
See how grazing livestock has turned grasslands to desert in Patagoinia.
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Eat more meat and save the world:... implausible farming miracle
Poke holes in the argument of a meating eating "environmentalist".
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SELECTED RESEARCH
Zucca C, Reynolds JF, Cherlet M
Livestock systems... degradation in the new World Atlas of Desertification
EGU General Assembly. 2015
Briskea DD, AshbJustin AJ, Dernerc D, Huntsingerd L.
Commentary: A critical assessment of... endorsement for holistic management
Agricultural Systems. 2014
Carter J, Jones A, O’Brien M, Ratner J, Wuerthner G
Holistic Management: Misinformation on the Science of Grazed Ecosystems
International Journal of Biodiversity. 2014
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