Vegans do not kill more animals than meat-eaters. Furthermore, the unintentional deaths in plant-focused agriculture are not as morally reprehensible as those in animal-focused agriculture.
1. Land use
2. Negative externalities present in animal agriculture but absent from plant-focused agriculture
3. Intentionality
4. Veganism being aspirational
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