Except that in that case, if we ate less meat, then on this so called marginal land - much of it could be retired and returned to nature, for water conservation, for flood control, for soil retention, for wildlife and "rewinding", for woodlands, for cooling the landscape, for CO2 sequestration and perhaps parks and common land for people in these overcrowded islands. And arguing the case for less meat production on the basis of economic misbehaviour in Sri Lanka, that's just ridiculously fallacious and irrelevant reasoning.