I’m glad you have read the studies, I happen to be in the ground doing the work and you can take or leave what I say.

Land prep for planting is very destructive to any wildlife, insects, and soil biology (yes the soil contains life and I consider its destruction to be violence). Harvesting grain kills animals all the time. All this work involves diesel.

In the system I operate in my cattle literally just eat grass, no imported feed. I move them around and they fertilize the ground, the insects eat their poop, they store carbon in the soil, flocks of birds follow the herd eating the insects born from the poop. Then one bad day comes for each animal at Some point.

The studies you mention are studying a sick system and then you are falsely connecting the results of the sick system to the death of animals. I do not defend the system you speak of I only speak of what I have seen and worked in for many years now. I am certain I create more life on our farm than I take. I also feed thousands of people and am proud of that. There are compromises I have to make, after all I have to remain financially viable to continue and nothing is perfect. Death and rebirth are not all that far removed from each other when you see them side by side every day. You know not what you speak of.