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No, it's not comparing the suffering of plants and animals. It's only pointing out that by virtue of feeding an animal, you necessarily kill plants. So when you raise an animal to eat, you're killing both the animal as well as the plants it consumed. The 7-10x number is relative to the number of plants you'd have killed if you instead ate plants directly.
The quote says: "Even if plant suffering were of the same intensity as animal suffering, omnivores would produce seven to ten times more suffering than plant lovers alone." Note the word "suffering". The quote is comparins suffering , not killing . > The 7-10x number is relative to the number of plants you'd have killed if you instead ate plants directly. The quote says: "Worse, the production of one animal protein r…
In order to get 1 calorie of meat, you need to use 7-10 calories of plants. So by necessity, if you eat 1 calorie of meat, you are producing (at least) 7-10x the suffering relative to eating 1 calorie of plants, since 7-10x as much plant mass (and hence plants) needed to suffer to create the meat.
I'm going to stop responding at this point because I'm not sure how else I can explain this.