Is not industrial agriculture generally (and more generally, greed) the actual problem?
I do not think that intensive crop growing is better than pastoral farming of animals for meat. The former is catastrophic to the local environment the latter is all around me and causes very few problems.
So because we want meat, more and more industrial agriculture has to happen to grow that meat. So yeah, I think having an industrial meat industry has more environmental impact, than just having industrial farming in the absence of the industrial meat industry.
So eating meat is both very polluting, but once was and still could be a net positive for agricultural sustainability and reducing fossil fuel pollution.
Certain industrial techniques do.
I am surrounded by pasture with sheep (and some cattle, and even some Lama? Alpaca?...) eating grass.
Industrial agriculture is not a state of nature, it is a choice.
The industrial production of soy beans is quite horrifying also.
There are industrial farming techniques that are not so bad as there are traditional techniques that are awful.
We are intelligent creatures and we can make choices. Better choices than just giving up