[xorfish]

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

If everyone were to switch to a vegan diet, global agriculture land use would be reduced by 75%.

[xtian]

To what end?

[LinXitoW]

Well, carbon sequestration, for example. Or habitat restoration. Or more suburbs, or whatever.

It's not just land use, it's every single vector of comparison, like water use, energy use, human labor (ab)use, habitat destruction, etc.

[BucketsMcG]

It would allow nature to begin to recover from the damage we've been doing to it for thousands of years. Besides increased biodiversity being an inherently good thing, it would also reduce flooding and erosion, stabilise weather systems, preserve topsoil, etc. etc.

[TylerE]

Water and pesticide usage is way more problematic than land usage.

[pintxo]

We can safely assume there is a relationship between land-use and total water and pesticide usage.

[marliechiller]

correct, which is even more reason to try to reduce animal consumption as they make up a massive proportion agriculture required just for their feed