That number doesn't even include those animals that are hunted, trapped, hit by cars, glued to the grills of speeding vehicles etc. I remember, as a child, watching people drive obliviously through flocks of butterflies. Also from childhood, I remember when a secret pond I found in the woods, home to frogs, was bulldozed one day to make room for a pile of gravel for the railway. Where does the destruction end?

Yes, go vegan, please. And let's try to minimize the other damage around us.