never met a vegetarian/vegan who has considered the ecosystem holocaust brought about for every plowed/harvested field.
not much karmic accounting there. most have never baled hay or plowed a field or seen first hand the damage to small species & their habitats this causes. They tend to fall into a mamilian sympathy trap whereby animals with more facial mobility/recognition are somehow more sacred.
on the whole it seems most ethical to raise, hunt & grow your own food where possible, and to locally & free range source always. Reducing your consumption to what our society would deem extreme is important too. overabundance & access has made us soft & delusional. just my two cents
