Comment by TomatoDash

We can eat soy - I had a tasty tofu bowl for lunch. The land used for growing soy animal feed can be also used to grow other plants we can eat directly or after preparation. That requires less land and less resources per calorie which lets us reforest and prevent further rainforest destruction. The carbon opportunity cost of meat is huge, https://ourworldindata.org/carbon-opportunity-costs-food