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If those resources are not needed for other things, then the cost "in terms of resource use" doesn't matter. E.g. cattle producing areas could be used to produc

• femiagbabiaka 5y ago
  Natural resource use is not quite like playing Civ V.. cattle production depletes resources, decreases natural carbon recapture through deforestation and ranching destroying environments, produces more emissions, etc. Also meat production is not all being consumed locally, exports are a thing. 1:1 production at a country level of any staple has not been a thing for a while now.
  • oldsecondhand 5y ago
    > decreases natural carbon recapture through deforestation That's a problem in Brazil but not in the EU.
    • aidenn0 5y ago
      That's only because the EU had finished a lot of its deforestation by the advent of the industrial revolution. [edit] One source: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/01/more-than-half-of-europes-forests-lost-over-6000-years/ https://news.mongabay.com/2018/01/more-than-half-of-europes-...
• gdubs 5y ago
  The land needs to be converted to natural forest if we want a shot at significant reduction of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Agroforestry and silvopasture are the next best things, but a huge problem with animal agriculture is the land use change. We simply need a LOT of land to go back to natural forest.
  • falcolas 5y ago
    Not all land is naturally suited to be forest land. See, for example, the badlands (grasslands) in the Dakotas and Montana. Those badlands are actually pretty good ranchland, since the wrinkled terrain is ill suited to farming.