methane has a 10 year linger time, a cow as a static methane overhead, it is not a net contributor

. We need to rapidly stop greenhouse gas emissions in the next few decades, because we’re already starting to see how bad climate change is going to be.

Agreed, we can be better - but attacking food that keeps people healthy isn't the way to achive that. Sick people are expensive and the medical industry is a massive polluter

It’s as if someone who eats meat felt like it takes too many words to say “meat eaters” and made up a new word for it in opposition to veganism

not quite - we needed a way to describe not eating any plants. Zero carb is correct but wordy, carnivore is succinct and descriptive. The problem is when people confuse omnivore and carnivore as the same thing (which is how most online debates tend to misuse the terms).

.