More soil is being used to support the animals that are being used for the food in demand from them, than what would be enough to feed the same people instead from plants. Knowledge for how to eat in healthy ways is important too. I had found information that we could be healthy without meat in our diet and saw I could continue without it, and was happy with thinking this way did not contribute to the slaughter of animals. That was just about twenty years ago. It was before I was online. But with use of online access, I learned in communication about the issues with abusive treatment to all animals in the industries with their confinement, the effect on environment, the greater use of land, water, and resources, I knew to give up all animal products. I later found the healthiest way of eating, which I have shown in other posts from me, with good variety of whole foods from plants.