What are you comparing animal agriculture to? Animals are killed in the process of growing plants too. The farmer must kill all the animals that look to eat their crop. This can be rabbits, gophers, bugs, etc. This can be outright targeting, as in the case of the "gopher killer" weapon. Or it can be a pestiCIDE. Even the tilling will kill animals. And where are you getting the fertilizer from? My understanding is that a farmer either needs to use a fossil fuel based fertilizer or an animal based one. I heard James Cameron completely failed to find non-animal organic fertilizer that worked on his farm. Now he has a dairy farm. All that said, my point is that both animal and non-animal based agriculture are harmful to animals. It's all a question of degree. I'm a fan of regenerative agriculture, especially as practiced at White Oak Pastures. As for lab-grown meat, that's all a play for companies to patent and make what is otherwise a low profit margin food (such as meat) and turn it into something extremely profitable. It is also really unknown the health consequences on the human body. We have been eating meat for a long, long time. I'm not going to trust some $cience coming from a corporation that has a financial interest in supposedly "proving" their products are safe. Yeah, ok, and cigarettes are safe too because the tobacco industry funded science says so.