Foods destroying rainforests, in one simple chart

[unfitted2545]

It's also worth keeping in mind whilst soy is the 3rd highest, 80% goes to livestock.

[schiffern]

Chart is buggy for some. Original here, Vox just added the countries up. Notice beef is off-scale high.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-026-01305-4/figures/5

[DauntingPear7]

People when talking about plant based/better-for-the-planet alternatives often don’t discuss the fact that they’re usually more expensive per unit

[conception]

Perhaps for highly processed items. But peas and beans are cheaper than beef.

[triceratops]

Don't eat "alternatives". Eat real food that doesn't have meat. I'm not even a vegetarian. Just clear-eyed about diets, cuisines, and culture.

[amenhotep]

Externalities.

[mikestew]

Did my ad blocker somehow block the “one simple chart”? Because I don’t see a chart in TFA.

[SapporoChris]

I get a square with "This content isn't visible due to your cookie preferences. To load this content, click the Allow button below to opt in to "Social Media & Embedded Content" cookies. These cookies are set and controlled by the third party sources from which the embedded content originates." and the button of course.

[ticulatedspline]

Yep, I use just vanilla no-script. No chart. unblocked half a dozen domains or more and never found the chart. No idea where the content is actually loaded from.

[Clamchop]

Running uBO here and I see a chart.

[nielsbot]

It’s beef.

> Beef caused at least 4 times more deforestation than any other food in the last two decades

[colechristensen]

This is what we need tariffs for. And it could probably get broad support for both supporting domestic cattle production AND environmental concern.

[DANmode]

My beef doesn’t come from cattle in a rainforest - or even out of state.

If yours does: do something about it.

[vivzkestrel]

what happened to beyond meat, impossible foods and all those other companies that a few years ago were planning to replace beef with plant friendly alternatives? why dont we hear about them anymore?

[mvid]

It is extremely difficult to justify fake beef that costs more than real beef. Maybe for a niche group who care about the ethics of it, but they aren’t enough to support a market. Once fake beef costs 80% or less than real beef, it could get some traction

[littlexsparkee]

since folks are lukewarm on no-meat options, they are working on blends which in aggregate would reduce meat consumption without the tough odds of converting meat-eaters

[colechristensen]

After a surge in popularity sales have declined steeply based on consumer demand.

Some people want hyper-realistic fake ground beef, etc. but not everyone, not all that many it turns out.

People who want to be vegetarian are also people who don't want to eat ultraprocessed food.

Authenticity is big with people. If I were to go vegetarian I'd want to eat... vegetables.

[mediumsmart]

Found the chart - not disappointed:

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[DANmode]

Everything on the chart except maybe beef and bananas can be done without (and probably should).

[triceratops]

You want people to give up corn and rice before beef and bananas?

Moreover beef appears on that chart twice: once as beef and again as soybeans, which are grown to feed livestock.

[robthebrew]

not a single chart in sight on that site.