CONTEMPORARY Issue No. 1 | Page 14

CONTEMPORARY by FOOD MATTERS Author: James Colquhoun Nature ENVIRONMENTAL: It does not make ecological sense to chop down the Amazon Rainforest to grow food for factory farmed animals. Although it’s championed as ‘efficient’, it comes at a huge loss for the environment. These ecological impacts have been well documented, especially when it comes to agricultural runoff creating dead zones in the ocean, the degradation of our precious topsoil and the huge strain on water and fossil fuels to sustain these farms and ship the end product to market