I love your conclusion. It's a hard conclusion to reconcile with being a parent, but I love it anyway.

And yes, I would eat SO MUCH LESS MEAT if I weren't married to a committed carnivore. R has recently been complaining about people "hurting nature" (chopping down Xmas trees, hunting animals) and we are talking about creature comforts and ethical tradeoffs a lot. Though you're right, the individual's impact is so tiny it almost seems negligible.