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So confident in your moral superiority. Guess what, you still pollute. And while I am definitely a meat eater, you have to be damn blind to not recognize that issues with animal agriculture goes beyond a mere moral issue. Heck, you even started your post with "Greenhouse gas emissions from Agriculture has been well known for quite a while."
Cars are transportation, and used to get to work and perform necessary errands. Not everyone can bike or walk long distances. Would you force some people to be homebound, unable to support themselves?
By not having children, my wife and I save 58.6 tonnes CO2-equivalent, compared to living car-free (2.4 tCO2e saved per year)..
I suggest you re-read my previous post.
My point can be sumarized by: don't let a need to preach your Morals on non-Environmental sides put aside more effective paths for better Environmental outcomes in favour of those paths which mainly serve your other Morals.
My personal standpoint on this specific subject is that we should be convincing people to eat less meat and aim for less enviromentally damaging meat (more poultry, less beef), and even try eating fully vegetarian meals once in a while, which IMHO is way more likelly to improve things Environmentally that trying to force people to switch to a "Meat Free" diet.
Pushing for the full "Meat Free" through legislation won't yield better Environmental outcomes, it will just generate lots of opposition, whilst an education "Eat less Meat" message will be much more broadly accepted and at the very least influence people away from damaging the Environment as much in this way.