The vast majority of livestock isn't fed by pastures. We could cut back deforestation a lot by switching the population to a vegan diet...
Re:China’s Pig Pandemic
by charliesharding on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @02:02PM
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Ironically, conversations geared towards reaching real solutions are not as prone to receiving widespread attention since they involve multivariate discussion and critical thought. Meanwhile, flimsy grandstanding is a popular way of making people feel moral while pushing any real conversations aside and therefore making the problem worse.
Agriculture is one of the prime reasons for deforestation (and in some countries, pollution), while pasture doesn't really need arable land.