I recently read an Economist article that compared beef to coal, underscored cattle’s methane emissions, and suggested that people should become vegetarians or abandon beef. The conclusion of the article stated: “Doing without beef from live cattle is hard to imagine, but the same was true of coal 100 years ago. Cultured meat could play an essential role in staving off a climate catastrophe.” Articles like these lead many to believe that eating beef is bad, regardless of whether the meat comes from CAFOs or is regeneratively raised, and that cows and fossil fuels are equally accountable for global warming. I believe such reasoning is fundamentally wrong, yet I fear many Americans (and in particular, millennials and Gen Z) fall for such incomplete narratives because they increasingly hear nothing else.