Lumifer comments on The ethics of eating meat - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 19 February 2016 03:39:27PM 0 points [-]

But the places where you can grow crops are wide flat open spaces, which would get re(?)vegetated with woody plants when you take off the grazing pressure.

Depends on the climate. A semi-desert (e.g. a lot of Western US) is a wide flat open space, but it doesn't change over to a forest without the grazing pressure.

Comment author: Romashka 19 February 2016 06:08:06PM 0 points [-]

Does much grazing occur there? Because if not, then this is somewhat irrelevant.

Comment author: Lumifer 19 February 2016 07:40:16PM 0 points [-]

Some. However the areas with grazing (usually non-intensive and by cows, not goats or sheep) aren't much different from areas without grazing. You just won't get forests in sufficiently arid climates. Brush, yes, some trees along the usually dry creek beds, yes, forests, no.

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