The impact of meat consumption on the tropics: reply to Machovina and Feeley

摘要

Machovina and Feeley [1] are correct that increasing meat consumption is having a major impact on the tropics, both via habitat conversion for grazing and expanding feed-crop production. We did underscore this issue in our TREE review [2] and elsewhere [3]. However, we believe that reducing global meat consumption, although a laudable goal, will be more challenging than Machovina and Feeley suggest.