A Modest Marginal Proposal

A recent report that concludes that the carbon footprint of food overwhelmingly consists of carbon emitted during the food's production rather than its transport (i.e. 83% from production, 4% of total footprint is preventable by "eating local"). Based on the report's conclusions Tyler Cowen (of Marginal Revolution) suggests:

In other words, when it comes to food the greenest things you can do, if that is your standard, is to eat less meat and have fewer kids.

But this suggestion just made me think of a modest proposal whereby we could solve both problems in one swift swoop...