Originally Posted by
lemira
That is a ridiculous, playground level argument.
Not at all. It's an argument called "the principle of least harm". More animals die (per kcal) in the cultivation of grain and soy crops than in the production of grass fed meat (for which the number of animals dying tends to one - the slaughtered animal itself).
As a vegan, I would have thought you would have wanted to minimise the total number of animals killed, rather than just worrying about the fluffy cute ones. Ploughing, and spraying with chemical fertilizers and pesticides is hugely harmful to field animals, birds, insects and other fauna. A meadow full of grass is a much more biodiverse environment.