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The big issue with agriculture, both organic and conventional, is what we farm. According to who? The World Bank, the EU and the UN: http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a0701e/a0701e00.HTM

The livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global. The findings of this report suggest that it should be a major policy focus when dealing with problems of land degradation, climate change and air pollution, water shortage and water pollution and loss of biodiversity.