Any industrial scale animal agriculture has as an input industrial scale plant production. For example, most of the plant matter produced for consumption in th

Any industrial scale animal agriculture has as an input industrial scale plant production. For example, most of the plant matter produced for consumption in the US goes not to humans, but to animal agriculture instead. Any issues in plant agricultural production will be felt many times over in prices for meat (either via subsidy or at the counter) than in prices for plants.