Can you correct me? Why Is Cattle Ranching Bad for the Environment? Ranching is also a major contributor to global warming. Always talking about oil, plastic, etc; but lose the focus on some more important points like cattle ranching, the livestock contributes to air and water pollution. In the first place the cattle ranching destroys jungles or forests for sowing cereal especially soya, more than 70% of this cultivation is for farmers' animals such as cows and pigs and less than 30% for humans. Farmers' animals produce more pollution than all the means of transport besides the methane gases are more harmful than CO2. All this for a piece of meat, not to mention excessive water consumption in the livestock industry. Another major reason for Cattle farming has also displaced local communities who have more balanced uses of land in their environments due the low emissions, reduce the effects of drought and protect nature at the same time. Apart from this I don’t completely agree with some foundations such as Greenpeace, Amazon Watch, WWF in my opinion, the foundations turn a blind eye to it because they can lose members. As opposed to the above ideas, ranching is an efficient way to provide meat. It is a vital part of rural economics; however, it has a disruptive effect on the environment. We need to conserve forests to prevent erosion and help regulate the climate, and diverse balanced ecosystems to maintain life on land. To sum up, I strongly believe we should eat less meat and show compassion and respect for the existence of another being. If we eat nearly 50 kg per person we can start eating less.