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Blog Post 4: Reflecting on the environmental geography

The process to process ground beef or just the production of meat has a negative impact to the environment for multiple of reasons. Deforestation for agriculture is in South America, but since raising meat takes large quantities of feed, the Midwest is losing its native prairies and grasslands for farming. Which leads to another negative impact of the environment, changing the fields to agriculture fields releases carbon pollution into the air. The production of meat affects climate change when the manure decomposes it releases emissions including methane, ammonia, and carbon dioxide into the environment. The crop fields are treated with toxic chemicals and fertilizers with a higher quantity than the farmers use on plants letting all the excess to go into the surrounding waterways.  One action that can be taken at a global scale to reduce the environmental impact associated with the production of meat is to reduce enteric methane emissions. By using an enteric methane inhibitor that is