> But more than half the cattle in the world live in Brazil and India. Not true. https://beef2live.com/story-world-beef-production-ranking-countries-0-106885

> But more than half the cattle in the world live in Brazil and India. Not true. https://beef2live.com/story-world-beef-production-ranking-countries-0-106885 https://beef2live.com/story-world-beef-production-ranking-co... > So one could easily say that recently burned Amazon rainforest is "marginal crop land", and that would make this statement technically true while still being no consolation at all. The point is that cattle can be raised in marginal crop land. Palm trees cannot. Yes, we should stop cutting down rainforest for cattle and palm oil. The difference is that we can raise cattle in the tons of marginal crop land we have around the world. > The next biggest chunk of the earth's cattle live in China Not true. https://beef2live.com/story-world-beef-production-ranking-countries-0-106885 https://beef2live.com/story-world-beef-production-ranking-co... > Grazing is supposedly a major factor in the expansion of the Gobi desert. Supposedly? Care to provide a source for that? > Perhaps all the biggest CAFOs are located in marginal crop land, but the grain they're feeding to the cattle is all grown on prime crop land. Care to provide source for that? If you really are concerned about the rain forests, then you should be against palm oil and raising cattle in the amazon rainforest. But it seems like you are just against raising cattle.