Yes, it’s right in line with the radical left’s intentions in destroying our social fabric: we have been blessed with vast, productive lands, but they are hell-bent on making us as poor and ill-fed as the global average, all in the name of “social justice.”
Livestock production is about a lot more than meat. It's about chemicals, leather, medicines, textiles, glues, and essentially modern technology -- beef byproducts find their way into all kinds of things. Of a slaughtered beef animal, virtually every smidgen of that critter is used for something.
Dairy is another nutritionary staple produced by livestock, and from a chemical point of view, is vital. We human beings have to have vitamin B 12 to keep our bodies, specifically our brains, functioning, and as far as I know, the only source of B12 is from animal-based foods including meat (fowl, mammalian, seafood, even insect legs in honey, no dif; hence vegans don't eat honey), dairy, and egg yolks. People who go all vegetarian or vegan who have any sense at all supplement B12. I cannot imagine that the manufacture of artificial B12 avoiding the use of animal products is anything but a long, resource-expensive propostion. Yet ending livestock would certainly require major investment in B12 supplement production for the health of Americans.
This as opposed to livestock ruminants, such as cattle and sheep and goats, whose digestive systems are designed to convert crude grains that humans cannot digest nor derive much food value from, into a vast array of products, nutritional, chemical, medicinal, and even textile -- wool and leather come to mind. From grain grown in areas where the propspect of growing crops for human consumption would be a tremendous usurping of land and water resources, we get livestock.
The anti-meat "cruelty-free" fools have told the lie often and loudly enough, that many sadly believe that livestock uses horrific gallons of water. I knew a livestock rancher who actually did the math, and sat chuckling at the absurdity of it. Meanwhile, non-livestocking folks forget entirely that non-leather products are like as not, grown. Those cotton Hawaiian shirts, those eco-friendly non-leather all-hemp boots, those canvas bags instead of "cruel" leather, are derived from crops that have to be grown and harvested and take water away from existing places. Think of all the cute little critters that are displaced when 500 acres of land, anywhere, is cleared for cultivation-heavy cropland.
We use our common sense, and DUH!!!! Livestock is far and away the most sensible use of natural resources. Those who think it "cruel" are clinging to a little-girl mindset, but it is a dangerous mindset, in fact, a DEADLY mindset.
The push against meat and animal products threatens the very physical health of Americans. God help the 13-year-old girls who have decided to go Vegan and don't supplment like pros. They are virtually guaranteed osteoporosis by their mid 30s.
The anti-meat ethic is foolish but more crucial, dangerous.