If only the meat weren’t so incredibly delicious…
I’ll wager the meat industry is but one of the many agricultural industries to do such a thing.
That’s the problem with the separation between consumers and farmers - you never truly know what’s going on behind the scenes.
The meat industry is a pretty big outlier compared to human crop production. It turns out that the best-case production of meat, dairy, etc. comes out worse compared to even the worst-case production of any plants for human consumption on pretty much every environmental metric (emissions, land usage, etc.)
Plant-based foods have a significantly smaller footprint on the environment than animal-based foods. Even the least sustainable vegetables and cereals cause less environmental harm than the lowest impact meat and dairy products [9].
