I think there's an important distinction to be made that cutting industrial, CAFO origin meat out of your diet is better for the planet. Meat eaters can eat meat in an environmentally friendly way. They can hunt overpopulated game sources that are fucking up biodiversity in their ecosystems. They can buy whole cattle from local sustainable farming systems. They can invest in lab grown meat. They can switch to insects. They can reduce the amount of meat they're consuming on a weekly basis. Plant based doesn't automatically mean better for the environment. Greenhouse gas emissions are reduced by not participating in CAFOs, yes, but biodiversity is often sacrificed for monocultured crops you find in grocery store vegan food (+transport of those crops creates carbon emissions). It's truly about context because foodways are unique. No matter how you look at it though, it's a small part of the problem compared to billionaire corporations who created the climate crisis. Did you know oil companies invented the concept of the carbon footprint and Coca-Cola heavily pushed recycling campaigns before anyone else? Both to put the responsibility of waste and emissions on the consumer, effectively diverting it from themselves?