Beef isn't so much the problem as much as factory farming.
Well you conveniently switch sides when it comes to protecting your burgers and steaks. There is no way that 7.5 billion people, or how ever many people wanting to eat beef, are going to be fed on grass grazed, non-caged and open prairie farms. Besides emissions are emissions. Think CO2 baby!
Globally,
14.5% of all greenhouse gas pollution can be attributed to livestock, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, the most reputable authority on this topic. And a huge hunk of the livestock industry's role -- 65% -- comes from raising beef and dairy cattle.
It will be hard to meet the 2-degree goal no matter what; it will be impossible if livestock pollution isn't part of the mix, said Doug Boucher, a PhD ecologist and evolutionary biologist who is director of climate research and analysis at the Union of Concerned Scientists
http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/29/opinions/sutter-beef-suv-cliamte-two-degrees/index.html
Some people, not you, are saying that meat eating causes as much CO2
pollution as petroleum production. Forget the issues of nuclear power plants. Nuke the cows, chickens, turkeys and pigs.
Sounds like the oceans are going to boil over,
unless deniers like you, accept eating twigs, tofu and berries. Get on the bandwagon and do your part. No more bacon, sausages, hot dogs, burgers, ribs and steak. Given your concern about the acidification of the oceans, you must not eat salmon, tuna, cod, etc, etc.
Of course some people (the 1% like Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio) will be able to afford buying carbon credits, so they can continue to eat beef and fly in carbon inefficient private jets. But it is only for the good of spreading the word of climate change, that they are doing so. It is because of this, that we don't hate them for being part of the despised 1%.