Vegans don’t realize how many animals are killed to protect fruit and vegetables, says a pig farmer and author.
Matthew Evans has written a book – On Eating Meat – which calls on omnivores and vegans to look at the impact of their dietary choices.
He has studied Australia’s food industry for years, and says that around 40,000 ducks are killed annually to protect Australian rice production and a billion mice are poisoned to protect wheat in Western Australia, among others.
“I think a lot of vegans probably understand some animals die, but they may not understand the scale,” he told ABC News. “So a duck dying to protect a rice paddy for me is not much different for a cow dying to produce a steak.
“They are both animal deaths that happen in the name of us being able to eat. So there is nothing that we can do that doesn’t have an impact on animals.”
Imaan Booster 