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by boston_clone 32 days ago
Bit of a fallacious argument here - why do you presume to know how farm land will be used in the future?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrospective_determinism

> If you remove animal agriculture, you don't get far less fields. You get fields with a different crop in them.

we just simply cannot know this. but, we do know the impact of our current practices, not to mention the (supposedly) debatable ethical element of killing hundreds of billions of animals each year.