so supposing you are a vegan and instead of eating animals you eat plants and fruits and nuts, etc.

but now rather than animals being killed and suffering in that way, you are eating food that could nourish other animals,
so instead of animals suffering by being killed you are perhaps causing animals to starve or not to be born in the first place due to a lack of food in their parents environment leading to them not being born and these potential animals happiness not happening.

not saying i agree with this but i think its important

thoughts?

thanks

or not to be born in the first place

Probably a good thing, I reckon.

so supposing you are a vegan and instead of eating animals you eat plants and fruits and nuts, etc.

If someone really thinks that eating plant produce is bad, then say it's simply the lesser of two evils (unless someone-who-cares-about-these-issues dying of starvation is somehow a better alternative to them eating meat and to them eating plants).

but now rather than animals being killed and suffering in that way, you are eating food that could nourish other animals,

If you eat animals, they'll eat more food than you'd otherwise eat. As such, eating plants would result in a net decrease in plant-eating.

Also, you don't so much eat food that could have nourished them as eat food grown on land where they could have lived.

Finally, we're not certain as to whether wild animals' lives are worth living. It's entirely feasible that it's good to eat meat because the suffering of the animals the farms displace outweighs the suffering of the animals you eat.

DanielLC's first point is a good one. No livestock digests energy and uses it perfectly efficiently. Omnivores kill more plants