The UK used to be covered in ancient oak forests with rich biodiversity, largely

lost to animal agriculture. Now when you fly over it all you see are fields and
hedgerows. Only 15% of our agricultural land is for human consumption, the rest is
grazing and livestock feed. Golf courses take up more land than our entire fruits
fields and orchards. All that grazing land provides less than 5% meat production
(the US is even worse I believe), the rest comes from our 800 mega factory farms
producing meat unfit for human consumption (by traditional farming standards), and
completely unethical - the factory farmed animals are also fed soy imported from
the Amazon. As a result of all this, the UK is one of the most depleted
biodiversity cases in the world. Grass fed farmers think their land is key for
carbon sequestration, however if it was rewilded, the absorption would be several
times greater. Regenerative farming is a great solution for small communities, but
far too inefficient to feed the masses of carnivores eating meat 3 times a day,
every day. The land used to give animals the freedom they need, their longer
lifespans (without being pumped with growth hormones and slaughtered as babies),
the model simply doesn’t work. Unless labgrown meat takes over (which it probably
will), we have to reduce our meat consumption/demand, and as a result, the
rewilding opportunities (and reversing climate change) would be huge."

The issue around grazing land is that it’s wholly inefficient - by staying as
grassland (due to grazing) to only produce a tiny amount of calories, it would be
far more beneficial rewilding this land which would sequester huge volumes of CO2.
75% of agricultural land could be freed up for this purpose according to the study
they refer to (2018 Oxford study, Joseph Poore). This is the most comprehensive
study ever conducted on landuse and food production.
Will regards to emissions, you only seemed to focus on CO2. The issue with animal
ag is that there are 1 billion cows emitting methane which is over 20X more lethal
GHG."

His opinions are not exactly misleading, but too reductionist and naive.
As for the statements about cattle and their impact on the UK, it's just been very
misunderstood. When looking at the studies, although they are usually biased
towards larger countries, in fact the UK is one of the worst ranked nations when it
comes to biodiversity (1). But to say that the cause of this is animal agriculture
is simply not true. Let's look at the most recent and comprehensive study on this
issue, State of Nature 2019 that "presents an overview of how the country's
wildlife is faring, looking back over nearly 50 years of monitoring to see how
nature has changed in the UK" (2).
First, according to the report, several factors other than agricultural management
are responsible for the problem of biodiversity in the uk, namely, "climate change,
urbanisation, pollution, hydrological change, invasive nonnative species (INNS) and
woodland management" in addition to others less relevant but still important ones
such as fisheries and freshwater management (2).
Second, although agricultural management has the greatest impact on species
biodiversity loss in the UK, agricultural management does not just mean livestock
(3). What I mean by this is that bad practices in livestock farming are not the
only reason why agricultural management is disproportionately more harmful to
biodiversity, but also, farm specialization (for example, arable enterprises),
greater mechanization, increase in farm size, loss of nature-friendly features like
field margins, hedgerows, wooded areas, and farm ponds, changes in crops and
cropping patterns (for example, grasslands managed for silage production rather
than hay production, with reseeding and drainage, crops sown in the autumn rather
than the spring) (4.5).
To conclude the UK topic, animal agriculture is just one of the most diverse and
varied reasons (not often talked about, such as pesticides and cropping pattern
changes) which make agricultural management (again) just one of the many
contributing factors to the loss of biodiversity in the UK.
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