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If you have concerns about plant agriculture, they are only magnified by animal agriculture which uses a lot more of it for animal feed
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2211912416300013
Or in environmental terms:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1713820115
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25374332/
or for overall diets
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/public-health-nutrition/article/comparing-the-water-energy-pesticide-and-fertilizer-usage-for-the-production-of-foods-consumed-by-different-dietary-types-in-california/14283C0D55AB613D11E098A7D9B546EA
since most beef cattle graze for the first year, where they put on the majority of their weight, then why would you attribute all the meat production to feedlots? shouldn't it be halved at least?