No one is. A lot of people who are preferring a plant based diet due to moral reasons are well aware of such “roadkill”.
Thing is, we’re not breeding them into existence. These deaths are accidental and if there were a technical solution to the problem everyone would be in favour of that. In the animal industry on the other hand everything is intentional. Both, the scale and the moral intentions are a completely different world there.
So, from the moral stand point of veganism: is it bad to kill animals? Yes. Is it worse to kill animals intentionally on an industrial scale, which could be prevented, than accidentally on a much smaller scale during plant farming where it currently can not be prevented? Absolutely, yes.
Ya. I don’t see the difference. Death is death. Intent matters not. If one option were to cause little death, I could see why someone would use death as an argument. As far as I can’t tell calorie for calorie vegetables cause more death in the period of growth and harvest.
Beef is obviously worse for the environment long term. Which one could argue matters more. But that is not the subject here.
There is no more a viable technical solution to eliminate death in mass scale vegetable production than there is in meat production. Whether it be the dream of lab grown meat, or magical land free pesticide free lab grown strawberries.
No one is. A lot of people who are preferring a plant based diet due to moral reasons are well aware of such “roadkill”.
Thing is, we’re not breeding them into existence. These deaths are accidental and if there were a technical solution to the problem everyone would be in favour of that. In the animal industry on the other hand everything is intentional. Both, the scale and the moral intentions are a completely different world there.
So, from the moral stand point of veganism: is it bad to kill animals? Yes. Is it worse to kill animals intentionally on an industrial scale, which could be prevented, than accidentally on a much smaller scale during plant farming where it currently can not be prevented? Absolutely, yes.
Ya. I don’t see the difference. Death is death. Intent matters not. If one option were to cause little death, I could see why someone would use death as an argument. As far as I can’t tell calorie for calorie vegetables cause more death in the period of growth and harvest.
Beef is obviously worse for the environment long term. Which one could argue matters more. But that is not the subject here.
There is no more a viable technical solution to eliminate death in mass scale vegetable production than there is in meat production. Whether it be the dream of lab grown meat, or magical land free pesticide free lab grown strawberries.