California grazing issue is much more complex than consumer preferences for beef. Humans have basically destroyed the grazing populations that used to live ther

California grazing issue is much more complex than consumer preferences for beef. Humans have basically destroyed the grazing populations that used to live there, including Buffalo. If you take the current land used for grazing and just stop, you’ll significantly increase fire risks as nothing else will eat all that brush and it’ll just collect. Go look around city borders where a lot less cattle grazing goes on - those hills have been stripped of forests and are just a pile of brush waiting for light up.