Treating beef like coal would make a big dent in greenhouse-gas emissions

> The simplest way to cut beef output is for people to eat other animals instead, or become vegetarians. That’s like, in 1900, saying “the simplest way to prevent road deaths is for everyone to drive slower.” That’s not simple at all - that’s an intractable group behavior problem. What you really need is for the government to come along and put up speed limits. Most people will push those rules, a few will flout them, but things will be…

All "haha, but it's tasty!!!!" jokes aside, and even ethics and morality aside (which is tough, because we cause a LOT of suffering here), growing meat is just incredibly inefficient. We have to sustain so much additional biological machinery just to chop off some muscle tissue at the end, even if we assume everything of the cow will be used eventually, it's just incredibly wasteful.

Maybe I have not understood this completely, but aren't this amount of extra emissions from beef in comparison to pork caused because emissions from milk are unevenly summed to emissions from beef? I would like to see how emissions from milk are subtracted from emissions from beef because if I understood anything in cattle business, if you have a cow you have both milk and beef.