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Cattle farming is a huge contribution to deforestation though: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/02/7-commodities-forests-deforestation-environment-cattle-pa

• bumby 3y ago
  Worldwide, perhaps. But TFA is about Texas and Kansas. West TX where some of the largest cattle herding occurs, is largely semi-arid grassland.
• sva_ 3y ago
  I personally don't eat meat, but I don't think it is a good-faith argument to say that rainforest deforestation in south america is a particularly good argument against cattle farming elsewhere. Those people are just unscrupulous in a different dimension.
  • roboticmind 3y ago
    It's not just South America. It's even in places like the UK >Most of the UK and Ireland’s grass-fed cows and sheep are on land that might otherwise be temperate rainforest – arable crops tend to prefer drier conditions. However, even if there were no livestock grazing in the rainforest zone – and these areas were threatened by other crops instead – livestock would still pose an indirect threat due to their huge land footprint (and those "grass-fed" cattle are also fed crops too) >Furthermore, most British grass-fed cows are still fed crops on top of their staple grass https://theconversation.com/livestock-grazing-is-preventing-the-return-of-rainforests-to-the-uk-and-ireland-198014 https://theconversation.com/livestock-grazing-is-preventing-...