We know how to make cattle much less destructive; what nobody has solved is how to pay for it.

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• Since people are not going to give up beef, the way to cut its damage is to make cattle far more productive on the land they already use. MGMichael Grunwald17 Apr 2023
• Meat produced from waste and rangeland is efficient enough that giving up meat is not the only ethical answer to world hunger. GMGeorge Monbiot7 Sept 2010
• The claim that higher yields backfire and end up increasing farmland is much weaker than the literature assumes. LBLinus Blomqvist13 Mar 2024
• Pasture-fed meat cannot be scaled up to feed the world, because there is not enough land on Earth for it. GMGeorge Monbiot28 May 2023
• A market economy rewards putting land under campsites and horse liveries rather than under food, and that is the wrong thing to reward. CSChris Smaje9 Dec 2023

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