For anyone curious what things look like for some of those other environmental issues:
Transitioning to plant-based diets (PBDs) has the potential to reduce diet-related land use by 76%, diet-related greenhouse gas emissions by 49%, eutrophication by 49%, and green and blue water use by 21% and 14%, respectively, whilst garnering substantial health co-benefits
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Plant-based foods have a significantly smaller footprint on the environment than animal-based foods. Even the least sustainable vegetables and cereals cause less environmental harm than the lowest impact meat and dairy products [9].
To produce 1 kg of protein from kidney beans required approximately eighteen times less land, ten times less water, nine times less fuel, twelve times less fertilizer and ten times less pesticide in comparison to producing 1 kg of protein from beef
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Yep it takes plenty of feed:
For anyone curious what things look like for some of those other environmental issues:
https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/14/8/1614/htm
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25374332/