The industrialized beef system is associated with high carbon emissions due to transportation of feed, chemical use, and enteric emissions.

“animal relies lives in a feed lot and it relies on grain or soybeans or corn that was grown in colombia on land that used to be rain forest right i mean we're talking about again raising rainforests and then growing crops using tons of chemicals and petroleum and then transporting it by the way transportation is the number one emitter of carbon and the transportation industry loves pointing at the meat industry — and then bringing it here and then having animals in confinement and yada yada right and then you get into this idea of enteric emissions which is essentially burps and to some degrees uh farts — and methane right”