Iconoclast and environmentalist George Monbiot has written many times for The Guardian or on his own website about both the ethics and environmental impact of eating meat.

Here’s another lucid piece, and as always George backs up his arguments with the relevant research, so if you are one of those vegans whom meat-eaters love to bait with unsubstantiated claims of their own, ask them to read this piece:

http://www.monbiot.com/2017/10/06/the-meat-of-the-matter/