The methane aspect of cattle production sticks in people's minds, but you’ve highlighted the actual problem with it that doesn’t get covered much: land use chan

The methane aspect of cattle production sticks in people's minds, but you’ve highlighted the actual problem with it that doesn’t get covered much: land use change. And it’s not just the grazing cattle, it’s the mind-boggling number of acres cleared and filled for monoculture animal feed production. Not only does cattle production contribute directly to greenhouse gases through tilling and methane, it contributed indirectly by moving land out of forest — which sequesters carbon — and into pastures. Regenerative farming practices are many times better than conventional fields — but even that pales in comparison to natural forests. Baring a magical carbon capture device, we need to move a ton of land back into natural forests. That’s because the extreme weather we’re starting to see doesn’t even factor in all of our emissions over the past decade or longer - they lag. We need to sequester and the only practical means we have currently is through plants and trees. Instead, we’re continuing to emit, and we’re continuing to deforest.