All lives are equal? Right? A chicken's life is as spiritual/precious as a cattle's, right?

A cattle is the nutritional equivalent of 100s of chickens, so eating beef can save lives, right?

Hindus have no qualms eating cheese but each piece of cheese is the dead bodies of billions of microbes. 

link:The Science Behind Your Cheese | Science| Smithsonian Magazine

"...A single gram of rind from a fully ripened cheese might contain a good 10 billion bacteria, yeasts and other fungi..."