New report: if US decreased our consumption of animal proteins by 50%, we'd have a South-Dakota-sized piece of land to use for #habitat, #carbonsequestration , and #rewilding
Pound for pound, takes far less acreage to grow beans than beef, for example.
">60% of land in the contiguous U.S. is used for agriculture, and 21% of that is cropland. A majority of the nation’s cropland — 78%— is used to raise crops that are primarily used to feed animals."