• Inucune@lemmy.world
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    So we should only preserve plants and let any animal not related to food production fight for it’s existence. Gg no re

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      let any animal not related to food production fight for it’s existence.

      How is this different from what we’re doing right now?

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      Not who are replying to, but I’ve got some good news, moving to plant-based diets is also better for wild animals too

      Livestock farmers often claim that their grazing systems “mimic nature”. If so, the mimicry is a crude caricature. A review of evidence from over 100 studies found that when livestock are removed from the land, the abundance and diversity of almost all groups of wild animals increases

      https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/16/most-damaging-farm-products-organic-pasture-fed-beef-lamb

      And not only that but fewer crops are needed for animal feed so less disruption overall from that end too

      If everyone shifted to a plant-based diet we would reduce global land use for agriculture by 75%. This large reduction of agricultural land use would be possible thanks to a reduction in land used for grazing and a smaller need for land to grow crops.

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