I was wrong about veganism. Let them eat meat – but farm it properly

The problem, as this article sees it, isn't that we eat meat; it's that we feed animals people food, which puts us into competition with livestock while reducing the efficiency of farms. Feed pigs scraps, feed cows grass, save the corn for people.

Also, many of the stats cited by eco-vegans turn out not to be valid. Water requirements for livestock are based off worst-case scenarios (California cows fed from irrigated crops) and are off by 3 orders of magnitude in the common case; greenhouse gas estimates for livestock conflate logging and land speculation with faring.

Seems a very valid article, and some of the non-science it debunks is absurd!

That said, the line "we could eat meat ... (albeit much less) with a clean conscience" is a little glib, surely most people know that the ethics of killing things just to eat them is at least an open question for reasons beyond environmentalism?