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by nabnob 2604 days ago
Raising cattle also requires additional land use for growing feed.
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And in turn more water used, and that water doesn't go back into the ground as urine.

That said, actual ranching (i.e. giving livestock room to graze) would be far less of an environmental burden (so long as it's in places where one doesn't have to burn down forests to make that grazing land).