Yes and no. The thing about promoting a vegetarian diet is that you skip an additional step in producing the food. If you grow the plants, you may need fertilizer and that is affected by energy prices. But if you feed that plant to a cow, the cow is really inefficient in converting that plant into meat, like every animal. And raising cows also needs additional fossil input, f.e. for heating stables.
doesnt that affect the prices of all food products?
The carbon footprint of meat is at least ten times higher than that of vegetables. Even if the latter are globally shipped.
Yes and no. The thing about promoting a vegetarian diet is that you skip an additional step in producing the food. If you grow the plants, you may need fertilizer and that is affected by energy prices. But if you feed that plant to a cow, the cow is really inefficient in converting that plant into meat, like every animal. And raising cows also needs additional fossil input, f.e. for heating stables.