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Not really. They just save the bigger/cuter ones. Thousands of mice, voles, moles, birds, rabbits, etc die from plowing up all the fields and machine gathering crops. Farming plants still kills lots of animals. Just not cows pigs and chickens.
You still farm crops to feed cows and pigs... You actually farm way less just to feed a human. So either way you're still killing less animals over all. And there are also study's showing the vast majority of field animals run to the edges of the field when the combines come.
That's true of the crops for animal feed, but then one cow will provide over 1,000 meals worth of food, as well as feeding everyone's pet dogs and cats.
I'm thinking the difference in death tolls between natural omnivores compared to vegans is closer than you think.
Still a net reduction though, a lot of those crops go to feed cows, pigs and chickens so if you remove that step and just eat the crops far fewer animals get killed
Sure (maybe. Cows raised mainly on pasture grass might not actually cause that), but the point I'm more trying to make is that it's dumb for a vegan/vegetarian to act like they aren't killing animals so they can eat. One cows life can provide 1000 meals worth of meat. How many small animals died to get 1000 meals worth of salads, because I'm willing to bet it's more than just 1.