But new alternatives, such as plant-based mock meat or lab-grown meat, could closely match the real thing in taste and texture. In our research, we estimated that fully replacing animal-sourced products would release more than 60% of the world's agricultural land. But we could also use that land to produce energy while removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, through a process known as bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (Beccs). And they point out that competition for agricultural land with food crops could threaten food security. And we then deducted the carbon that would have been stored by regrowing plants if we left the released agricultural land alone and did nothing.
