It isn’t just in this story that they are conniving and greedy- in real life, they influenced the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) to be included in the government agency’s recommendation for one’s daily diet, the meat industry paying $4.48 million and the dairy industry $7.12 million in lobbying in 2015 (Karlan-Mason & Shi, 2020).
Harpy is just one of many animals to face habitat loss due to the deforestation to which the meat and dairy industries heavily contribute, and unfortunately, Deforestation is estimated to happen at a rate of one to two acres every second destroyed for lumber and farming of plants and animals (Brown, 2019).
In our daily lives, we can choose to #sidewithharpy, selecting meat and dairy alternatives found in most grocery stores. No one person can save Harpy, but anyone can #sidewithharpy.