No reasons at at like that really if you think about it
To produce 1 kg of protein from kidney beans required approximately eighteen times less land, ten times less water, nine times less fuel, twelve times less fertilizer and ten times less pesticide in comparison to producing 1 kg of protein from beef
There are environmental and ethical reasons to do this. Not just cost
Sure. Sure there are.
No reasons at at like that really if you think about it
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25374332/