you can tell yourself that you are doing something to not actively making the planet worse for everyone

but it's not true. if i told you jumping jacks reduced global warming, how many would you do?

that graph is from poore-nemecek 2018, and should not be considered reliable.

It's difficult to avoid nihilism neck deep into an apocalypse. But you're right, I was being glib and dismissive. Sorry about that.

The reason I objected in the first place is that the oligarchy has used the personal choices conversation to quash criticisms across the board, and it's extremely effective. You can't complain about American manufacturing jobs going overseas because you drive an imported car. You can't complain about slave labor because you buy Nikes or KitKats or strawberries picked by illegal immigrants. It's a thought-terminating purity test that doesn't even hold up to scrutiny.

Factory farming chickens (or pigs or fish or reduces carbon output, but comes with its own environmental horrors, like diseases, water contamination, pest control, etc. Everyone in the world could go full vegan tomorrow, and the oligarchy would be clear cutting the Amazon rainforest to plant soybeans and lentils the day after, because the problem has never been personal choices. We need systemic changes to fix systemic problems.

By all means, reduce your beef consumption. But if you want to actually reduce human-drive climate destruction, we need to start eating billionaires, not chickens.