Are they overdue to go extinct somehow?
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ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 8 hours agoWe’re also the only reason cows still exist.
sukhmel@programming.dev 7 hours ago
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 6 hours ago
The cows we have that we get milk and beef from never lived in the wild. They’re domesticated from wild aurochs that started up around 10,000 years ago. Cows are domesticated food sources that wouldn’t exist without us, just like dogs wouldn’t exist without us.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 1 hour ago
Extinction would be a kindness for domesticated livestock species (or subspecies…whatever they are classified as).
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 7 minutes ago
It’s factory farming because at this point if it weren’t for raising animals for slaughter, we would have hunted pretty much everything to extinction. Vegan might be less harmful (aside that we evolved to eat meat and a vegan diet is hard to get right) but it isn’t without death. All those plants kill loads of insects and field mice and birds and rabbits. Everyone still gets a bit of blood on their hands.