> The amount of farming land destroyed for plants is far worse than grazing land however. What do you mean by "destroyed" and "grazing land"? The only way I c

> The amount of farming land destroyed for plants is far worse than grazing land however. What do you mean by "destroyed" and "grazing land"? The only way I can understand your comment to make sense is to assume that you believe corn, soy, and wheat fields to be destroyed by farming activities, but grazing land to not be destroyed. It's true that crop fields are often devoid of ecological diversity, require significant artificial fertilization and watering, and do contribute to topsoil loss. And some cows graze on huge ranches with little human management, walking through federal land in the open West among the sagebrush, evoking images of ancient herds of buffalo and a pristine ecological paradise: simply replace the buffalo with beef cattle, and skim a little off the top of that ecological system, rather than plowing it all under and growing row crops, right? Wrong. In reality, the vast majority of cows are, if not raised entirely, finished on feed lots: Small plots of mud and dust that cannot support a tenth of the plant life which would be required to grow the cattle that tread on them. The cows are fed grains like corn, hay, and alfalfa, soybean meal, and protein concentrates, which are grown off-site. A human with a tractor and fertilizer is able to get a lot more calories per acre with which to grow cattle than a cow grazing in and 'managing' its own field of grass with all the agricultural knowledge in its cow brain and the limited tools - its mouth and hooves - available to it. More at [1]. Furthermore, a cattle grazing operation - insofar is far from an ecological paradise. The cows destroy natural habitats, and human breeding of this herd and culling of its outputs is far, far greater than what a natural ecosystem would produce. More at [2]. [1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/12/feedlots-vs-pastures-two-very-different-ways-to-fatten-beef-cattle/250543/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/12/feedlots-... [2]: http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/public_lands/grazing/ http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/public_lands/gra...