Meat linked to global warming

I eat meat.

I also eat meat substitutes.

But given the nature of meat’s impact on the environment, detailed on Salon this week, I have to wonder if I couldn’t at least be eating better, more environmentally conscious meat and definitely more “fake meat,” which is great for vegetarian tacos, by the way.

Though the No. 1 cause of global warming is burning fossil fuels for electric power, livestock apparently accounts for 18 percent of global warming emissions worldwide — “more than the entire transportation sector.”

Yikes.

Apparently even grass-fed beef isn’t exactly without blemish because all cows, whether they graze on corn or pasture, belch methane.

And it’s not just extremist PETA advocates making the argument. It’s also The Humane Society of the United States, “good cop to PETA’s bad,” urging us to eliminate animal products from our diets, implying that meat, dairy and eggs are equally destructive, with beef being the absolute worst.

Check it out.