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Changing Your Diet Is 'Number One' Way To Help The Planet, Woody Harrelson Says
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this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2026
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Back in the 90s I calculated that the US could save the Amazon rainforest by cutting our meat consumption by 10% and legalizing hemp (not marijuana). I no longer have the math available but the gist of it was that a 10% decrease in beef cattle feed would cause a corresponding drop in demand for feed corn, and if that much cornfield land were converted to hemp (which would work agriculturally) and the hemp were used to make paper, demand to import pulp logs from SA would decrease enough to demotivate logging the rainforest - where most logs at the time were being harvested for pulp. As a side benefit, the paper would last a lot longer but wouldn't be more expensive.
Took me a lot of time and effort to do the research for that. Dunno if it's still valid in today's economy.
I would love to see this data if you're willing to do the research again! Much more likely to trust you, a slrpnk fellow, than Woody Harrelson
You can think of Woody Harrelson as a celebrity, but you can also think of him as a well-documented individual who has consistently gotten involved in contemporary social issues and has always come down on the right side of complex matters where there are a lot of public confusion. He's an activist now, he doesn't even perform anymore.
Here's some 5 seconds of googling: https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food
thanks man I appreciate it! C: