What would happen if all animals on Earth were herbivores?

  • Written by: Mitchell G. Nye-Wood, Research Fellow, Edith Cowan University
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What would happen if all animals on Earth were herbivores? – Molly, age 9, Melbourne

What would happen if all animals on Earth were herbivores?

Thanks for the great question, Molly!

We hear a lot about how humans eating meat is bad for the planet. That’s because making room for the animals that produce meat leaves less space for us to farm plants, and less natural habitat for...

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