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When you're poor, you already do 3-5 and 2 is usually taking a bus or walking anywhere.
Here in the USA, the overwhelming majority of poor people eat meat; even the homeless! They just get low-quality processed meat instead.
Farming livestock is less than 6% of greenhouse emissions globally: https://ourworldindata.org/ghg-emissions-by-sector . and that include dairy and wool.
If you're poor you have a lot less responsibility for the problem. Wealthy and middle class people a) almost certainly have a higher historical impact (in some cases by being part of the systemic cause), and b) have more time and security and resources with which they can push for change. And therefore have an ethical responsibility to act, IMO