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Animal deaths - Coggle Diagram
Animal deaths
Plant-eating, crops
Field mice and other rodents, snakes, birds, deer, insects; in Aus also pigs and kangaroos; all die for crops
Some are shot to protect crops; others die from pesticides
These animals/insects die in the billions
Study by University of New South Wales 2011
If you're only eating big animals, your impact on sentient animals is much lower than those eating plants
You have to kill 25 times more sentient animals to grow 1lb of plant protein than you do for 1lb of animal protein
If you take into account the bioavailability of plant vs animal protein, the difference in terms of how much you need to eat to get the same nutrients, the impact of plant eating is likely even greater than 25 times more
Regenerative agriculture
Requires ruminant animals
Ruminant animals have been proven to increase biodiversity
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.14001
They can also reduce biodiversity, but this is the fault of humans not managing the animals in a way that reflects how they'd behave in nature with predators
Reintroduction of apex predators after food webs have been disrupted (e.g. lack of sea otters causing too many urchins that then eat all the sea kelp, upsetting the balance) has had varied results
Not the same environment anymore and it can't necessarily be easily reversed
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320718316288
RAs sequester carbon into the soil
Meat eating
1 person needs 1 ruminant animal for every 2 years
Reduces animal suffering/death
This would have to be a grass-fed only animal?