Plants, as a class, have a cost per calorie with a 60x range (from about 50 to 3000 calories per $). Animals are fed with plants at the higher end of that range

Plants, as a class, have a cost per calorie with a 60x range (from about 50 to 3000 calories per $). Animals are fed with plants at the higher end of that range. If you replace your meat consumption with plants at the lower end of that scale, it does not result in lower resource consumption.