Livestock as a means of de-desertification

[JasonBlack]

I don't know if that's really a word or not, but a lot of folks in the green movement have had strong vegetarian impulses from the start, and, in the past, this has led to the assumption that meat eating and animal husbandry have been major contributing factors to habitat destruction. In reality, the opposite is true, and attempts to remove livestock have unanimously led to once lush fields becoming dry, baron and infertile.