[aoeusnth1]

Factory farmed animals aren’t primarily fed on harmless waste products. They require production of corn or other plants to efficiently feed them. Do a google scholar search for land use of various diets. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Personally, I don't mind eating hunted meat. It's just inconvenient because I don't like to hunt, nor could I do so conveniently.

Regardless, you seem to be assuming that vegans care about minimizing the number of organisms harmed. I don't think that's generally true - most people care about subjective understanding of suffering. Personally I like Brian Tomasik's writings - he tries quantify suffering explicitly based on functional complexity of brain function (https://reducing-suffering.org/the-importance-of-insect-suff...).