[mssundaram]

Furthermore, most meat eaters additionally eat plants too, and the animals they eat also usually are eating industrially farmed plants, which really makes the crop deaths argument silly.

[iratewizard]

Farm animals are fed primarily crop byproduct that you can't digest and grass.

[mssundaram]

So what? If your argument is absolute number of deaths because of crop deaths, those crops would still be killing animals and thus it's still more than not eating meat.