Hayom chamisha u'sheloshim yom, shehaym chamisha shavuot baomer

Huge amounts of land are needed to grow food for farmed animals and for cattle to graze. More than 80 percent of agricultural land in the U.S. is used in some way to raise animals, which is more than half the country's total land mass. More than 260 million acres of forests in the U.S. have been wiped out in order to make way for land where grain to feed farmed animals is grown.