As for livestock vs vegetation being better or worse for the environment, it isn't a contest. Farming is many times worse for the environment than raising animals. Has any of these useless journalists, CEOs and crazy vegans ever stepped on a farm? Do they understand what is involved in farming? To farm, you do your darnedest to pretty much wiped out all animals from insects to rabbits to coyotes to large herd animals to protect your farm. And if the world were to go vegan, we'd have to cut down every rich forest ( amazon to the jungles of southeast asia and africa ) to provide farmland for vegetables. Whereas wheat, soy and corn that we feed livestock can grow in harsher temperatures, most vegetables we eat cannot. Also goats, pigs, etc can forage on weed and other "pest" vegetation in harsh climates.
Also, farming kills 1000 times more animal than raising livestock. These vegans are so insane that they think vegetables fall from the heavens like manna. Nope. An incredible amount of insects and small rodents/mammals are killed prior to planting and during harvest. That's right, every salad, every fruit and every meal that you eat contains some animal.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/but-not-simpler/i-hate-...
I am so sick of the vegan nonsense. It's not based on fact, reality or common sense. It's just agenda pushing virtue signaling where people pretend to be morally superior for nothing.
More animal lives perished for a vegans salad than a carnivore's steak. And a vegan eating a salad is actually eating more animals than a carnivore eating a steak.
So morally speaking, a meat eater has the upper hand if you think all animal lives matter.
But maybe we should listen to a dumb city dwelling vegan who has never set foot on a farm. Lets wipe out forests and cultivate the land for farming. We'll wipe tens of trillions of animals in the process. And that's before dousing the farmland and vegetation with pesticides, petrochemicals, etc. But vegan feels over reality right according to the lazy journalist and the agenda pushing CEOs and corporations.
Or do cow, pig, chicken lives matter more than insect and small mammals?
Are the thousands of lives lost for a single salad meal worth a single cow's life that could produce a thousand meals?
Edit: Downvoted? I guess vegans don't like science. Maybe you are more of a huffpost crowd.
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/05/02/bugs-in-food_n_1467...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/11581770/Hair-aphid...
Downvote all you want. Vegans eat more animals than a carnivore. In case you were wondering, insects are animals.