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If the world adopted a plant-based diet we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets htt

• SAI_Peregrinus 3y ago
  I suspect we'd increase population to match production capacity. Just like every other time we've had an increase in effective resource production, we just increase consumption to match.
  • steve_adams_86 3y ago
    That would arguably still be better for the planet. Plant agriculture is lower-impact and poses far less threat to biodiversity and the human species via disease vectors. Take for example that lettuce is a leading cause of food-born illness. It's actually because there's poop from animals on it, and it almost always comes from agricultural animals with the intent of it functioning as fertilizer. Without that factor, plants would be far safer. There isn't much about animal ag that makes good sense apart from "it tastes good".