Reply #8: A quandry here

[MadHound]

If we're so desperate to return to organic farming practices to feed our country and the world, then by all means, we need cattle and other such animals for their part in the crop cycle. It is an age old practice to rotate three or four different crops through a field, followed by letting it be grazed, and manured, for a year by cattle, sheep, horses. It revitalizes the soil, fertilizing it. Take this away and we would have to rely on chemicals, a deathly cycle that cannot be sustained.

Sorry, but I find this argument to be counter productive, and frankly rather than focusing on cattle and such, we should focus on the other eighty percent of the problem, the greenhouse gases that mankind creates via auto and energy pollution. What good is it to be a vegetarian in a world where we haven't cut down on auto or energy emissions. Sure, that methane is gone, but we'll all still be dying from carbon monoxide and other such poisoning.