Assuming it is the 'How not the Cow'*, we need to be driven in that direction. AFAIK that will also mean reduced 'efficency' so either more land usage to raise the same number of cows OR we have to eat less (but better meat) at a higher price.
I'm not suggesting instant veggie world, but the status-quo is not sustainable [ambiguous English usage alert].
In any case, there should be no argument that today, animals for food are a very significant climate change driver....
*Interested in looking at the evidence for this. [EDIT - see you have it upthread].
PS - Am not unaware of the irony/hypocrisy of my source of income in this....
I know you're not unaware of the dissonance between your source of income and the need to move away from industrialised long supply chain food systems.
As I've said before we're all in this system as is, just either more or less embedded depending upon which way we turned at various points in our lives
After attending 'conventional' agricultural college (NDA) I chose to turn away from the industrialised model which was promoted then as modern and most efficient, in those times (late eighties early nineties) and pursue a more holistic greener lower input approach .
Richly derided in many circles back then of course - but hey you have to have a thick skin as a new entrant to agriculture anyway, esp if you're female , so whatevs.
Plus I now make a sustainable income from doing it, and have gone from landless farmworker to farm owner on the back of it..
(Or 'idiot' as Shep would have it 😁)
Since that time understanding has shifted to see that soil care, diversity and layering of cropping and livestock is the way forward.
That we can't carry on with the reductive monocultures, and hyper processed over calorific but nutritionally depleted foods such as is promoted by the extractive, profit first driven model .(McD's being just one of many)
Study after study shows that overall smaller agroecological farms produce more nutrition per hectare than large industrialised acreages.
By diversity of cropping , and animal husbandry and by having multiple outputs, from multi layered enterprises quite often too.
It's not true it's less efficient..
But yes we need to eat less meat perhaps, but better.
The majority of the world's population is still fed by smaller and medium sized farms.
Even the UN itself acknowledges this.
It's an outright lie that bigger is better.
But of course those vast extractive models have the bigger lobbying power with governments and even with many NGOs..
Why can they monetise so much lobbying power ?? because they have extracted vast profits from the global commons - soil, and ecosystems, and from land grabs deforestation for soya for animal feed, and all the rest of it .
And polluted water , soils, air and our bodies along the way .
They've made populations , yet at the same time obese, and undernourished with micronutrients.
More sustainable systems don't make so much profit, because they're not so extractive of resources, nor so exploitative of people.
They allow small independent (like me) farmers to flourish
Time for a change, it's coming at an increasing pace now, but not quite soon enough.
And of course theres a good amount of push back from corporations such as that for whom you work
Just as there was / is with tobacco companies / oil corps / Bayer / Monsanto..
And all the rest..
Ok folks coming for dins (lucky them) so I'd best crack on..