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Not deluded at all and def not a palace fan!
Grassland is indeed an essential carbon sink, though perhaps I should have been more accurate is saying the soil is the carbon sink whilst the grass is the sequester. Of course this doesn't mean we shouldn't protect our forests or any other ecosystem (sea grass could be the biggest carbon sink of all). However, every time land is ploughed or cultivated (several times a year when in crops) there is a carbon release event which does not occur in grassland. Furthermore cropping deletes the soil where livestock grazing maintains a nutrient balance. One should no more take this argument as a reason to stop growing crops or vegetables than the reverse is an argument to stop farming animals (or for that matter go and shoot all the ruminants such as wilderbeast in the wild). However we do no need to achieve balance with an aim to reduce mega intensive food production full stop, use less fossil fuel based fertilisers and pesticides and above all maintain the health of the soil. Mixed farming systems are fundamental to achieving this.
You might find this article of interest: https://www.earth.com/news/trees-grass-carbon-sink/
And by the way, I have nothing against vegans - not eating meat is their choice and I respect that. I am far more concerned about the wider environment and the damage that one sided politicised myths could potentially do if not challenged.
As one or two posters have said, the real answer to climate change lies in eating less of everything and controlling world population growth.
