Vegans replace meat with grains and beans. When these crops are harvested, mice, voles, birds, rabbits, that live in the field, are sliced up by the combine harvesters.
BUT
the vast majority of grains and beans that are grown are used to feed farm animals. You have to kill a lot more field mice to get 1lb beef, than you do to get 1lb wheat. So eating grain-fed animals kills far more animals than a vegan diet.
BUT
what about grass fed animals that don’t eat grain. Would eating them cause less deaths than a vegan diet? What about only eating wild game?
What about the caveman diet where you dont eat any grains, beans, potatoes or dairy. Only meat, fish, eggs, fruit, veg and nuts. Would eating that (and only eating wild meat and wild fish) cause less deaths than a standard vegan diet?
I’m vegan and would never start eating meat again because I find the thought of eating dead bodies repulsive. But I would really like to know which diet really does cause least deaths because I hate the thought of the field mice being killed. Every time I look at a bowl of pasta I see blood. Can’t ask this in the vegetarian section coz I’ll get criticised.
I’m vegetarian because I dont want animals to be killed or to suffer – but if it turned out a vegetarian diet killed more than paleo, I still couldnt go back to meat.