Myth # 35 : " But vegans kill animals during harvesting ."
Myth # 35 : " But vegans kill animals during harvesting ."
That ’ s true , vegans do occasionally kill some insects , lizards &/ or small rodents during their harvests . Of course , the critical difference is this – there is absolutely nothing in the harvesting of edible plants that requires the murder of sentient animals . Yes , while the inadvertent death of some animals is always regrettable , it is in no way a direct consequence of veganism . Indeed , true vegans actually do their best to avoid causing these harms when they garden & harvest , while it is meat & dairy consumers who actually demand that those same harms ensue .
Even more poignantly , far more animals are intentionally murdered by the meat & dairy industry ( after leading horrific lives , no less ) than vegans incidentally kill during their garden harvests . And in addition to that truth , far more plants are harvested ( well over ten times as many ) to feed meat & dairy livestock than would ever be harvested by a world filled with vegans , meaning quite simply that many more animals are killed by meat & dairy-based plant-harvests than by vegan ones .
In conclusion , while it is true that unintentional injury & death is sometimes the result of vegan farming , vegans are consciously striving to eliminate causing any such pain & suffering … We may not be perfect , but at least we are trying . As such , if you are sincerely concerned about minimizing animal cruelty and maximizing animal well-being , then you too must go vegan to do so .
Current status of this Myth : Disproved Justification it provides for eating animals : NONE
“ If we all went vegan because we cared morally about nonhumans , that would necessarily translate into methods of crop production that would be more mindful of incidental and unintended deaths .” ~ Gary Francione
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