Lambasted for their voluminous greenhouse gas emissions, implicated in massive land degradation, and denounced for driving deforestation, livestock are supposedly the bad kids on the block - the black sheep of sustainable agriculture.
In short, the sacred cow has long left the building; to misquote Orwell, it's definitely now a case of "four-legs-bad".
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