The thought of that many lentils makes me gag.
Cows and sheep can easily live on land not suitable for crops. Livestock is a way to essentially turn unproductive, dry grassland into meat.
Cows and sheep can easily live on land not suitable for crops. Livestock is a way to essentially turn unproductive, dry grassland into meat.
https://ourworldindata.org/soy
And that "unproductive dry grassland" used to be natural habitat for wildlife, until we took it from them, and more often than not used to be forested.
The potential for carbon storage afforesting those areas is huge, so huge that we could store our entire 1.5˚C carbon budget in them.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-00603-4
https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammals-birds-biomass
Rapid global phaseout of animal agriculture has the potential to stabilize greenhouse gas levels for 30 years and offset 68 percent of CO2 emissions this century
https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal...
Agriculture production as a major driver of the Earth system exceeding planetary boundaries
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320356605_Agricultu...
Restorative agriculture for the win.
I won't be eating crickets or vegan burgers or whatever zealots think I should eat. Or be deprived of eating.