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.
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.