[cykotic]

There is a negative impact to eating beef in the form of negative externalities. Humans are excessive in just about everything. We consume excessive amounts of materials and this consumption has the price of polluting the whole world.

[CP3f6kMA]

We produce much more than we consume. That is the wasteful part.

[cykotic]

If we produced exactly what we consume then there would still be massive amounts of waste. There would still be pollution on a global scale and still be toxic chemicals pumped into the environment. There would still be a mass extinction level event that is caused by humans.