[zihotki]

You must consider other factors as well. The grass where cows are feeding is also a home and food for many other species. Making the land arable makes that void. Add pesticides, add other things to fight animals eating crops and the picture you get is just another extreme.

[BobbyJo]

Not really. First, most beef isn't grass fed. By and large most cows are fed corn and soy, which means most of the land used producing beef already has those bad side effects. Second, if you grow food directly, you actually need less land to produce the same number of calories in plant material instead. So, you'd actually be able to creat more wild grassland without beef than with it.