The more animals there are being raised for human consumption, the more demand there is for feed crops, fertilizers, farming equipment, seeds and arableland.
Which is a shame, because the U.S. has the largest federal water zone in the world, with more ocean area suitable for deep-water fish farming than the country has arableland area.
James Janaway, who farms arableland in the Czech Republic and Romania as well as Hampshire, explains that farming in Eastern Europe is not plain sailing for Britons.