Why do Vegans seem so unrealistic in their understanding about how Cereal Crops are cultivated....

South West Queensland in Early 2016 After 40+ mm of Rain - Showing either side of Roo Proof Fence (source Twitter)

Before we go to the start of my collection of articles,  lets just put this out there.

If you farm cereal crops, if you know people who farm cereal crops, you will know that the soy bean and wheat and rice crops are very tasty and that roos pigs, deer, rabbits, mice, ducks, etc. will happily munch their way through a paddock or two if you let them. You also know that farmers generally don’t let that happen.

 

Researcher: Vegetarian Diet Kills Animals Too

Steven Davis says he didn't set out to start a fight, but found one when he began attacking one of the most sacred beliefs of the vegetarian community.

One of the reasons most commonly cited by vegetarians for giving up meat is the conviction that other animals have a right to life as well as humans. But when Davis began setting up a course on animal ethics for the animal science department at Oregon State University four years ago, he reached a rather surprising conclusion.

Nobody's hands are free from the blood of other animals, not even vegetarians, he concluded. Millions of animals are killed every year, Davis says, to prepare land for growing crops, "like corn, soybean, wheat and barley, the staples of a vegan diet."

Smaller Victims ...... read the full article

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=97836&page=1

 

Ordering the vegetarian meal? There’s more animal blood on your hands

 

The ethics of eating red meat have been grilled recently by critics who question its consequences for environmental health and animal welfare. But if you want to minimise animal suffering and promote more sustainable agriculture, adopting a vegetarian diet might be the worst possible thing you could do.

Renowned ethicist Peter Singer says if there is a range of ways of feeding ourselves, we should choose the way that causes the least unnecessary harm to animals. Most animal rights advocates say this means we should eat plants rather than animals.

It takes somewhere between two to ten kilos of plants, depending on the type of plants involved, to produce one kilo of animal. Given the limited amount of productive land in the world, it would seem to some to make more sense to focus our culinary attentions on plants, because we would arguably get more energy per hectare for human consumption. Theoretically this should also mean fewer sentient animals would be killed to feed the ravenous appetites of ever more humans.

But before scratching rangelands-produced red meat off the “good to eat” list for ethical or environmental reasons, let’s test these presumptions.

read on....

https://theconversation.com/ordering-the-vegetarian-meal-theres-more-animal-blood-on-your-hands-4659

 

I will add further links in the comments section (maybe)

Photo: South West Queens Land after 40mm of Rain Showing effect of Kangaroo Proof Fence. (16/01/2016 Source Twitter)