Reply #107: Growing vegetables kills more animals than all the animals butchered for food [View All]

Most people don't realize this, but it's estimated more animals are killed farming vegetables (or fruits) than all the cows, pigs, goats, etc. are killed and eaten for food.

If you worked or lived on a farm you know that insects are sprayed, unless it's organic then the insects are eaten by other insects. Either way, humans are involved in killing the insects.

But, aside from insects. Mice, skunks, frogs, snakes, lizards, raccoons, oppossums, etc are killed when the fields are plowed and when the fields are harvested.

Heck, I've killed more frogs this year just by mowing my lawn than the sum total of all the cows and pigs I've eaten. I try to avoid the frogs, but they stay hidden or sometimes just jump under the mower. Gruesome, really.

Just thought I would mention some of these interesting points from a farming perspective.