By Hugo Francisco de Souza Reviewed by Susha Cheriyedath, M.Sc. Oct 12 2025 A new global metric shows how everyday foods, from beef to coffee, carry vastly different extinction costs, exposing how our diets and imports quietly shape the future of Earth’s wildlife. Study: Food impacts on species extinction risks can vary by three orders of magnitude . Image Credit: Leszek Kobusinski / Shutterstock In a recent study published in the journal  Nature Food , researchers leveraged global food