system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: How does the meat industry worsen climate change?

I know I sound like an utter idiot to most of you guys right about now, but I have no idea what the correlation is between meat and climate change. I read people on here typing "Don't eat meat" when talking about how to slow climate change, and It confuses me. When I googled it, I honestly got the impression that "Meat = climate change" was just a given fact that people are expected to know, no explanation needed.

So, once you're done laughing at my ignorance, I would much appreciate an easy to understand explanation that shows how the meat industry accelerates climate change.

Edit: I think this might be Biology-related, but I assigned the Other tag because I'm not sure.
gpt
A cattle farm produces as much waste as a small city.  Meat production is highly inefficient; they have to grow grain to feed to the cattle, and the animals produce waste and gaseous emissions.  It takes 3 times as much crops to feed the animals we eat than if we just ate the plants we grow.  Animal farms use a third of the world's fresh water and 30% of all the land on Earth, which generally means people have cleared out forests which leads to higher levels of carbon dioxide, which leads to global warming etc.