Eli5: How does factory farming contribute to the climate crisis and the biodiversity loss?

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Eli5: How does factory farming contribute to the climate crisis and the biodiversity loss?

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Plants can only sustain a certain range of animal species; certain animals or insects etc can only – or only want to – feed on specific plants. If you take a huge swathe of land that could have hundreds of species of plant life on it and turn it into only a couple, that land can now only sustain a fraction of the life it used to.