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Power tools are not the main source of emissions for raising cattle. Methane emissions happen in ruminents from digestion. Grazing-only production actually has overall higher methane emissions due to longer growing times and lower slaughter weight. Further, it does not scale well in the slightest. For instance, the US would need a 4x reduction in beef consumption using 100% of available land (if you want to avoid high deforestation pressure, you would need even more reduction)
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aad401
More broadly
https://ourworldindata.org/less-meat-or-sustainable-meat
citation needed
I gave one in my comment? There's a quote with a source there
not for that claim