Replying to my own comment, because I can't seem to edit it from this mobile app. Thinking about this a little more, I had it a somewhat wrong above. Most of t

Replying to my own comment, because I can't seem to edit it from this mobile app. Thinking about this a little more, I had it a somewhat wrong above. Most of the carbon that makes up the animal comes from the air in the form of photosynthesis. So if it's re-released back into the atmosphere, that's not a net gain. So I suppose to be completely neutral there would need to be an equal amount of carbon being sequestered in the soil to offset the factors already mentioned, like transport and processing. That does actually seem conceptually possible.