Overwhelming evidence, excluding the clickbait "Lettuce is 3 times worse than bacon" articles

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/12/18/being-a-vegetarian-might-make-you-feel-environmentally-superior-why-that-may-be-wrong/?utm_term=.dae81d385d7c

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10669-015-9577-y

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1250532/Being-vegetarian-does-harm-environment-eating-meat.html

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2010/07/vegetarianism-worse-for-the-environment/

https://qz.com/749443/being-vegan-isnt-as-environmentally-friendly-as-you-think/

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/09/28/why-vegetarianism-will-not-save-the-world.aspx



Bill Mollison has argued in his Permaculture Design Course that vegetarianism exacerbates soil erosion. This is because removing a plant from a field removes all the nutrients it obtained from the soil, while removing an animal leaves the field intact. On US farmland, much less soil erosion is associated with pastureland used for livestock grazing than with land used for production of crops"

NRCS. 2009. Summary report 2007 national resources inventory. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. 123 pp.

http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a0701e/a0701e00.HTM (In short, the important statistics are 18% is by meat but 66% is by land production of both [vegetable] farm and meat


Additionally, *yes I do believe in climate change* but it's important to really understand what are the actual causes and not jump to solutions like "all meat is bad for environment." You know what is a real addressable issue? Food waste, of all kinds, is a major polluter.