>77% of agricultural land is devoted to livestock. We could return a lot of that land to wilderness if we adopted a whole food plant based diet. You have to be

>77% of agricultural land is devoted to livestock. We could return a lot of that land to wilderness if we adopted a whole food plant based diet. You have to be careful here. Livestock is generally carbon sinks. Those cow patties are taking co2 into grass and then depositing it into the ground. Flipside, plant based diet has a deadline. http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2015/ph240/verso2/ http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2015/ph240/verso2/ We are already 70% degraded and only slowly the process by spraying oil byproducts on the land. If we kill the oil industry, that erosion increases in speed. A more recent publication was looking at the moulds vs fungus balance and it's even worse than the above proposes. We have to get into regenerative farming to reverse this problem and that includes keeping livestock for those cow patties.