Analysis: You may be amazed by that answer, but the area of land used for grazing is vast compared with the meat and milk produced
Livestock farmers often claim that their grazing systems “mimic nature”. If so, the mimicry is a crude caricature.found that when livestock are removed from the land, the abundance and diversity of almost all groups of wild animals increases. The only category in which numbers fall when grazing by cattle or sheep ceases are those that eat dung. Where there are cattle, there are.
We don’t think about large predators in the UK, because we’ve exterminated them. Efforts to bring back lynx and wolves have so far been thwarted by the objections of livestock farmers. In the United States, where big carnivores still exist, federal and state agencies wage war against them on behalf of cattle and sheep farmers, often with astonishing brutality.
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