The global livestock industry already takes an enormous toll on the environment. It’s a hungry and thirsty beast, gobbling up land and water. It’s a potent polluter, thanks to the animal waste and veterinary medicines that seep into soil and water. And it emits more greenhouse gases than planes, trains and automobiles combined.

–“Could Insects Be the Wonder Food
of the Future?,”
Emily Anthes

In this excerpt, the writer creates a potential fallacy by

citing evidence that is largely irrelevant to the overarching thesis.
denigrating an opposing viewpoint rather than focusing on the issue at hand.
failing to provide specific evidence to support conclusions.
oversimplifying contradictory data to discount a counterargument.
rephrasing and repeating a claim as evidence of the claim.