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cleanprairiedog@lemmy.world 5 months agoIf this were not the case and the numbers were natural, the planet would be consumed by cows in a short number of years.
The reason there are so many cows is because people are breeding them into existence. There are far more cows now than there would be if people were not eating them. I’d rather be extinct than be sexually abused by humans, have my children killed at a fraction of their lifespan, and live in filth like most cows do.
Instead of breeding more animals, we should let the ones alive now live out their natural lifespans and stop breeding them. But as long as people keep buying animal products, breeders will keep breeding the animals.
saltesc@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Definitely not. Our natural ecosystems and wildlife would not handle that. They’re invasive to most of the world and would breed invasively. The planet doesn’t need that problem anymore than it currently has.
If you were to keep them on farms, I assume you’ll be paying for all the feed, medicine, workers of the agriculture industry, etc. Or would you just leave the cows to starve or get sick and die, while millions of people become unemployed frommfarmhands to students flipping burgers at McDonald’s?
cleanprairiedog@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s a false dichotomy, leave them on farms or leave the in the wilderness to die. Sanctuaries treat cows with dignity instead of objects for profit.
There will be more cows existing at any one point in time if more people don’t go vegan because of the population increase. It would take less resources to let the cows alive now live out their natural lives and there not be any cows anymore in 20 years than to continue sexually abusing them, forcing them to reproduce, then killing 30 million of them a year in the US alone. There’s 91 million cows in the US right now, it would take less resources to let them live out there lives and there be no cows in 20 years than if there are over 91 million cows in 20 years. The population will decrease from 91 million down to around 0 in 25 years whereas if people keep eating cows, there will be over 91 million cows consuming resources in 25 years.
This utopia scenario is a fantasy, but it demonstrates an important fact that if we breed less cows, less resources will be used and there will be less of a toll on ecosystems. The ways less cows will exist is if humans stop reproducing as much and/or go vegan. The numbers will decrease gradually the more that people go vegan.