"If You Want to Save the World, Veganism Isn't the Answer"

"In the vegan equation, by contrast, the carbon cost of ploughing is rarely considered. Since the industrial revolution, according to a 2017 report in the science journal Nature, up to 70% of the carbon in our cultivated soils has been lost to the atmosphere.
"So there's a huge responsibility here: unless you’re sourcing your vegan products specifically from organic, 'no-dig' systems, you are actively participating in the destruction of soil biota, promoting a system that deprives other species, including small mammals, birds and reptiles, of the conditions for life, and significantly contributing to climate change."

Isabella Tree at The Guardian writes that "intensively farmed meat and dairy are a blight, but so are fields of soya and maize."