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Unless you grow everything yourself, the production of fruits and vegetables that you consume also involve exploitation and suffering. The humans aren't being eaten, but they're hung out to dry all the same.

Even if you do grow everything yourself, people had to suffer to obtain the nitrogen and phosphorus in your fertilizer.

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However the levels of suffering is magnified by animal agriculture especially because it takes a large amount of crops for feed

> 1 kg of meat requires 2.8 kg of human-edible feed for ruminants and 3.2 for monogastrics

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S22119...

As for fertilizer, the usage is lower without animal agriculture even compared to best case usage of manure

> Thus, shifting from animal to plant sources of protein can substantially reduce fertilizer requirements, even with maximal use of animal manure

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09213...