You gotta love oversimplification. There are so many variables involved. Is the study counting the production and maintenance costs of the car itself? Is the cow corn-fed or grass grazing? I was looking for a scientific source on the old "is it more environmentally friendly to stop driving your car or to stop eating beef" question and the only thing I came across was this from Scientific American:
"Producing the annual beef diet of the average American emits as much greenhouse gas as a car driven more than 1,800 miles"
The average car in america is driven over 12,000 miles per year so an average american driving averagely eating an average amount of beef is still harming the environment by a factor of 6-7 times more simply by driving compared to their beef eating. The larger truth is the Buddhist maxim - there is nothing you do in life that is pure good. You have to look at your own lifestyle and make reasonable changes to decrease your own personal footprint.
How about "Having children is the most ecologically damaging thing you will every do in your life" as a headline? Just being alive has an environmental cost, give us some headlines that help us make reasonable incremental changes, please!
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