> Animal industrial complexes destroy ecosystems. That doesn't counter what I said. Sure they destroy ecosystems, but only as secondary effects. A field of alm

> Animal industrial complexes destroy ecosystems. That doesn't counter what I said. Sure they destroy ecosystems, but only as secondary effects. A field of almonds in a desert will destroy more ecosystems than cows being fed corn or grass. > Wildlife does not reproduce at the unsustainable scale that we force cows to do so. Sure it does, it's just the question of keeping wildlife in check via predation. When wolves disappear so do forests, because deer (or other ruminants) run amok. The way I see it, what US did is convert the biomass of wildlife into the biomass of cows.