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The kicker is we need agriculture and industry, like it or not. Whereas no one apart from some billionaires and tech bros want or even need AI.
%80 of agriculture is animal feed. Not saying everyone should become vegeterian or vegan but I think the culture that pushes more than necessary animal based products (especially America) should be suppressed gradually.
extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
This is common knowledge by now, see for instance.
Half of the world’s habitable land is used for agriculture

More than three-quarters of global agricultural land is used for livestock, despite meat and dairy making up a much smaller share of the world's protein and calories.

Our World in Data

first, this relies on poore nemecek 2018, which used poor methodology, so you shouldn’t believe the study you cited.

but beyond that, much of that farmland is grazing land. that’s not 80% of agriculture, it’s 80% of agricultural land.

Yeah agricultural land was what I tried to convey as well, fixed thanks (not necessarily land that is agricultural for human edible vegetables though).

Here are some other sources:

%71

%85

%85

%70-75

71 per cent of EU agricultural land used to feed livestock, says Greenpeace report - BBIA

Greenpeace released a report on 12 February 2019 on how public funds delivered via the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) are currently used, finding that around 71 percent of EU agricultural land is used to feed livestock.   When excluding grasslands and only taking account of land used for growing crops, the report concludes that [...]Read More... from 71 per cent of EU agricultural land used to feed livestock, says Greenpeace report

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using land to make food is good, actually.
Potentially yes but I think if it is always the same type then it deprived the land of certain types of nutrients. You need to rotate the crops.
if you’re planting crops, sure. if you’re grazing grasslands, the story changes, and that’s most of what agricultural lands used for animals are.