Right. But producing it under healthy conditions takes more space and costs more money. It cuts into the profit margin.

Truth be told, growing most of our produce is just as hard on the environment as our meat. Huge monoculture fields, pesticides, chemical fertilizers, polluted water, loss of top soil.

We'd be much better off if more people grew their own produce, if more people hunted their own meat, and ate food in season or learned to can for the offseason, and not waste billions every year moving tons of food from one side of the planet to the other just so we can have fresh peaches and strawberries in winter and oranges in the middle of the summer. It tastes like cardboard anyway if it was picked so early to still be viable when it gets to market. If people hunted their own meat, they'd learn to cook more cuts of meat more ways instead of "cherry picking" the finest cuts and letting the rest go to dogfood.

SRS