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What’s the environmental cost of growing all that soy, corn and oats for an US wide vegetarian diet?

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A lot less than farming meat which requires all the cost of growing that and ensuring the animals are fed and watered until slaughtering.

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From the article

But not all agriculture is equally land-intensive. Meat-heavy diets require far more land than low-meat and vegetarian diets.

But not only that it also requires crop land for plant-based diets. From a different source

If everyone shifted to a plant-based diet we would reduce global land use for agriculture by 75%.

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If we would shift towards a more plant-based diet we don’t only need less agricultural land overall, we also need less cropland.

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

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