Green - An environmentalist community

I'm more familiar with the climate effects related to meat consumption. I can't speak as much to the waste associated with the meat industry. I'm willing to bet there's a good amount of meat waste though, given that meat doesn't tend to last as long as other goods and since meat has more steps in production. As in you need to feed livestock, so you have the waste associated with growing feed for those animals, the water waste associated with hydrating them, and then also the meat waste itself. More steps would mean more waste in my mind. But that's speculation. I don't have any numbers. I don't think meat packaging is particularly more wasteful than the packaging used for most plant based foods, so I'm not sure about that. Can anybody else here speak to this?