Vegan MoFo Day 1: The Compassionate Choice4

remnoca:

Compassion to animals? The harvesting of wheat kills and crops kills more rabbits and field mice than it does to eat farm animals and fish. What is more humane? Getting shredded to bits by a harvester and having guts sprayed all over the wheat and crops or killing an animal quickly and eating it? If vegans want to be compassionate then the only thing they can do is grow their own crops for themselves, surely the effort in that is worth the lives of the animals killed with harvesting, no?

Animals aren’t dumb and they learn pretty quickly not to be where the killer machines are. It’s called observational learning. You don’t need to be murdered by a rumbling death-machine to recognize you should stay out of its way.

        Even if they did, stupidly, live in the fields, and didn’t hide underground to avoid the harvester, then I’m pretty confident there would be less “meat” (by weight) murdered by the harvesting of crops for x meals than eating meat for that same number of meals. Like, say you can get fifteen meals out of a dead cow. Harvesting that many meals worth of pure grains/whatever kind of products would kill less than a cow’s worth of field critters.

        Rabbits don’t even live in crop fields anyway!

        Also, it costs far more money and food in order to eat meat. Animals have to be fed with grain until you kill them and the investment doesn’t pay off. So even if you were to harvest a cow’s weight in wheat, and kill thirty field mice, you would get more food (you can’t eat every part of a cow) and you would save money.

edit: oh right, I did mention that you have to kill critters while getting wheat to feed the meat, but I didn’t emphasize it enough - so here’s your emphasis, you monkeys