Killing and eating animals is pretty fucked.
Eating only plants also puts blood on your hands. Mechanical harvesting kills field animals which don’t know how to escape other than hiding in the long grass
A cow is five hundred meals for one death. An acre of wheat is hundreds of deaths, a whole farm thousands.
I’m not counting the insect deaths from the insecticides used on crops, I’m not counting the deaths of and injury to amphibians from farm runoff
I’m not counting the destruction of ocean ecosystems by farm runoff
Any food growth damages the land ecosystems, but even there, cattle fields have trees, wheat fields have practically no plant life but wheat
Now consider where the food for livestock comes from, not all are grass-fed.
To grow the crops to produce the food for livestock (such as soy), a far greater number of field animals are killed.
Not to mention the erosion of the topsoil cattle cause.
This is honestly such a tired argument, it has been debunked on many different fronts.
the vast majority of beef cattle gain most of their weight grazing. cattle in particular consume very little of the soy crop, but what portion of the soy crop that is fed to any livestock is by-and-large the industrial waste from producing soybean oil. recovering that to feed to livestock is a conservation of resources.
The ones I get only eat grass, or whatever grows in the agricultural leases in the Australian highlands
The sheep I eat have a varied diet, they graze the stubble left after harvesting crops they can eat, as well as whatever grass grows in their field
I don’t buy factory farmed meat, I don’t buy feedlot meat. Naturally fed tastes best and is so much better for the environment — the only big impact is displaced kangaroos, and 'roos are not endangered, they’re doing fine. Cattle don’t damage waterways like the federal horses do, so the grazed land is often in better condition (native plants, native animals, clean waterways) than the unmanaged land with its horses
There is truth to what you speak, but that doesn’t change the fact I stated above. And eating only plants certainly lowers the death toll and inhumane treatment that you are contributing to by a huge amount.
So you agree that mechanical harvesting kills many animals
You agree that killing a cow makes 500 meals
And you also think there’s less death from eating plants?
You got a source for that?
Because: https://www.surgeactivism.org/articles/debunked-do-vegans-kill-more-animals-through-crop-deaths
your link does not address grazing ruminants, a practice that supports the vast majority of meat cattle, and which requires no crop deaths at all
The ruminants also fertilize the ground; crops need carbon intensive fertilizers
A source for “rabbits and mice live in fields”? Preschool education
not to mention the insects genocidally slaughtered by chemical warfare
Just think about all the bacteria and small creatures you kill every time you take a shower. You monster. ;)
Many people consider small animals the equal to humans. Nearly no one cares about fungi and bacteria. Vegans who like being able to see get their vitamin B12 from bacteria
Whoooosh!
