• Apollo42@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      You talk about the forests of scotland, the vast majority of these are monoculture plantations with absolutely terrible biodiversity. By far the largest producers of meat in scotland are factory farms where animals are fed using things like soy, only a minority of livestock entering the food market are reared anything like sustainably.

      There is nowhere near enough land to grass feed the amount of ruminants that we consume, so feed crops need to be grown or imported.