About 33 percent of cropland is used to feed grazing animals including dairy cattle.

大约有33％的农田用于喂养放牧的动物，包括奶牛。

Not grazing so many animals on a given patch of land would discourage transmission.

不在一块草地上过量放牧动物会减轻虫害传播。

And trees can provide another valuable service for agriculture. They can provide grazing animals with shade from the sun.

树木还能为农业提供其他更有价值的作用，能给放牧牲畜提供遮阴处。

So removing grazing animals entirely would leave unfarmable acreage four times the size of California.

因此，完全移除放牧动物将留下四倍于加利福尼亚面积的不可耕种面积。

So they had to content themselves with clearing fields, grazing animals, and chopping down trees.

因此，他们不得不满足于清理田地、放牧和砍伐树木。

There are even images of livestock and grazing animals, like cattle and sheep.

甚至还有牲畜和放牧 动物的图像，如牛和羊。

Biochemist Pat Brown, CEO of Impossible Foods, wants to replace grazing animals entirely. By when?

Impossible Foods 首席执行官、生物化学家 Pat Brown 希望完全取代食草动物。什么时候？

And so the whole ecosystem holds a lot more water in it when you have grazing animals, when they're well-managed.

因此，当你饲养放牧的动物并管理得当时，整个生态系统会容纳更多的水。

" That's going to have consequences for things like the grazing animals that are dependent on the steppe or the grasslands, " he says.

这将对依赖草原的食草动物产生影响。”

These practices include grazing animals on grasses grown from the pastureland s natural seed bank, and fertilized by the cows' own fertilizer.

这些做法包括用牧场天然种子库种植的草来放牧动物，并用奶牛自己的肥料施肥。

We throw ecosystems completely out of whack so that grazing animals like cows and deer, well, they come in and eat all of these soft new shoots.

我们完全把生态系统破坏了，以至于放牧的动物们，如奶牛和鹿，它们进了树林并吃掉了这些柔软的新芽。

The gnus, antelopes and other grazing animals of east Africa do this, wandering around the famous Serengeti Plain to where the grass is greenest.

东非的牛羚、羚羊和其他食草动物就是这样做的，它们绕着著名的塞伦盖蒂平原游荡到草最绿的地方。

Like the savannahs of Africa, the presence of large areas of edible grass in the prairies and steppes has resulted in the support of vast herds of grazing animals.

与非洲的大草原一样，大草原和草原上大面积的可食用草的存在导致了大批放牧动物的支持。

So when you hear shocking soundbytes like this: " A vast majority is for agriculture, and when you divide that up, you see that land for grazing animals far surpasses land for growing crops."

“绝大多数土地用于农业，当你把它们分开时，你会看到放牧的土地远远超过种植农作物的土地。”

Beyond the vernacular terms, grasslands vary more technically in the height of grass, and in the absence of grazing animals, this relationship is determined by the amount of rainfall and soil drainage.

除了俗语外， 草原在草的高度上有更严格的差异，在没有食草动物的情况下，这种关系是由降雨量和土壤排水量决定的。