And I don't agree here. Science has for a long time focused on the idea that if we kill whales we would have better seas with more krill and more micro-organisms. That's not true.
Eating is necessary for the food chain. So, the same goes for humans, we just have to become more aware and change our human systems. Read Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer and you'll find that we MUST harvest. We just shouldn't take more than we need, we never should take more than half and we should feed the soil/ocean again with the waste we produce (biodegradable in soil, freshwater, saltwater, air).
I'm glad you have become conscious, David. Nowadays, magic mushroom do that to a lot of people...