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Originally Posted by Marianne
The only reference I see is to "forage based" animals. Is he assuming that the animals raised for food will be able to live on a diet of grass?
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Yes, he proposes a forage production system for raising ruminant products and concludes that a sum total of less animals would be killed as a result.
Regardless if you agree with that or not, if you eat vegetables that you buy from a farm, you are supporting the death of animals. Only by growing and harvesting by hand your own food, without the use of pesticides or insecticides, harvesting equipment, predators to control pests, flooding (used in rice production), or any other number of farming techniques that cause harm to animals, they you are killing animals for the production of your food. If you don't take these measures, then it is hypocritical to condemn anyone else's diet because you aren't doing all you can to limit the death of animals for the benefit of your food consumption.