> Even a planet full of vegetarians requires the most fertile land and fresh water to be used for crops. If everyone turned vegetarian—or better still, vegan—w

> Even a planet full of vegetarians requires the most fertile land and fresh water to be used for crops. If everyone turned vegetarian—or better still, vegan—we could easily return 75% of current cropland to nature[1], and still feed more people than we do today. Meat is just ridiculously water- and resource-intensive; plus, the animals that are reared for said meat are non-trivial contributors to CO2 and CH4 in the atmosphere. [1]: https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets > we can’t create a meal without hurting animals This is a Western problem. India, for instance, contains more vegetarians than the rest of the world put together, times five.