[cerebellum42]

Because that does not work on scale.

This discussion is about how producing meat requires tons and tons of land in the form of soy bean fields that feed the animals, which indirectly and directly contributes to deforestation. Now you come along and say, just eat meat produced using this other method which takes a lot MORE land for the same amount of meat production?

[chrisseaton]

But our fields are already grass - we don’t need to deforest to grow any soy at all.

[cerebellum42]

No they're not, at least they're not pasture. They're either already farmed fields or they're wild meadows. Putting meadows to intense use would destroy whole ecosystems that may look like "just grass" from afar, and farmed fields are obviously already in use.

[chrisseaton]

> No they're not, at least they're not pasture.

Thanks for telling me what the fields around me are!

[cerebellum42]

I don't think anyone in this whole thread was talking about your local fields here.

[bayesian_horse]

There's not enough grass-land in the world for everyone to eat grass-fed beef. That's the whole point of not feeding them grass in the first place.