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What is your argument against someone who calculates that agriculture kills a lot of small animals like worms, rats, insects, birds etc? (lemmy.vg)

submitted 3 weeks ago by leaf@lemmy.vg to c/vegan@lemmy.vg

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And that it can result in more deaths than hunting and eating one large animal.

I admit that modern agriculture can and should be improved to be less cruel. I would still be uncomfortable with the act of killing and eating the flesh of a sentient being like me.

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[–] disregardable@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 weeks ago

And that it can result in more deaths than hunting and eating one large animal.

That's not a sustainable method of food source production, which is why only the most remote and impoverished groups of people still do it. Once a population grows past a certain size, it's literally impossible to rely on hunting as a food source.

It's also still unnecessary murder, and nobody should be forced to eat a dead carcass. That's unnatural and gross.