1) The beef industry has monopolistic, anti-competitive cartel behavior similar to the chicken industry. https://www.reuters.com/business/how-four-big-companies

1) The beef industry has monopolistic, anti-competitive cartel behavior similar to the chicken industry. https://www.reuters.com/business/how-four-big-companies-control-us-beef-industry-2021-06-17/ https://www.reuters.com/business/how-four-big-companies-cont... 2) Raising cattle has drastically higher emissions of greenhouse gasses than other animals. For instance, looking at the chart here: https://ourworldindata.org/carbon-footprint-food-methane https://ourworldindata.org/carbon-footprint-food-methane beef is 5x to 10x the emissions of chicken. By my estimate, the online commentary about beef's contributions to the climate crisis feels pretty correctly proportional to their level of emissions.