 So meat is always going to be relatively carbon intensive because animals want to do all this very energetically wasteful stuff, like moving around and living their lives. That's one point for the vegans, I suppose. All right, but I do eat meat, and so do most of us, at least to some degree. How does chicken stack up against other meats then? Against other meats, chickens do quite well. They're much less carbon intensive compared to beef and lamb, for example, mainly because they don't burp up methane.