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Re:A no-beef diet is great – but only if you don’t replace i... by loceng on Sunday May 23, 2021 @11:02AM (#27255440)
The Sacred Cow documentary is worth watching which goes into detail of this cycle - including that a lot (most?) crops use animal manure for fertilizing, so you still need the animals.
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Re:A no-beef diet is great – but only if you don’t replace i... by pkphilip on Monday May 24, 2021 @10:02AM (#27264462)
Apart from that, livestock grazing has been used effectively to fight desertification by Allan Savory and others.

https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/reversing-desertification-with-l...

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