What should happen to the animals?!
Answers: according to vegetarians and vegans, what should happen to the animals that have been domesticated and raised for food should they be set free? maintained for free? or where should they go. i have been vegetarian for a month and a half simply because i love the animals but i have not been able to find an answer to this question
Well the animals that are currently alive, they would probably be allowed to live until their natural deaths because you cannot set a domesticated animal free and expect it to live. Setting them free also spells destruction for existing ecosystems.
Also, you have to realize that even if the whole world did go vegetarian or vegan, it would not happen overnight. So, if this did end up happening, companies and farmers would gradually produce fewer and fewer livestock for meat and animal products until the very day comes (very unrealistic to believe that everyone will go vegan or vegetarian though). Therefore, once it actually happens, there won't be a whole bunch of animals roaming free or cramming up farms. There would be significantly fewer animals compared to how many there are today.
Also, supply and demand. The reason there is so much livestock is because they are bred like machines for the purpose of meat. If fewer people consume meat, then the company would breed fewer animals.
And this is in response to Wiseguy above me:
"ever see a bear or wild cat catch it's prey and tear it apart
nature is not pretty either"
So what, are you saying that humans are at the same level as wild animals? Humans are much more evolved than that, and as someone that is anti-vegetarian, you should know that humans are the most evolved species. Since we are the most evolved species, why do we feel the need to slaughter animals as done in the wild? Also, humans are naturally omnivores and can thrive without meat, unlike animals in the wild that are natural carnivores - they need meat. Humans also have many alternatives to meat, animals don't.
Well the world wouldnt go vegetarian all at once. As fewer and fewer people eat animals, factory farms would produce fewer and fewer animals.
some of the animals that are raised for food can be used for other things like cows can give milk which can be made into a variety of other things and chickens lay eggs sheep can be used for clothing pigs are the only animals i dont know of any other uses for them besides food........
Well there sweetie, sounds like your going to have to give the cows and chickens a new set of skills? Maybe You can train the domesticated cow to be a house pet? or train the chickens to be attack chickens used in security.
I can't stand vegetarians
you think we treat animals bad
ever see a bear or wild cat catch it's prey and tear it apart
nature is not pretty either
I love animals...and we shouldn't be cruel to them but we are doing nothing wrong eating them
There will always be meat eaters, so I think animals raised for food will be around well into the future.
What would we do with the animals if we didn't eat them? God gave them to us for work and food. As well as the fish in the sea. Cattle would overrun the pastures and grazing land and then they would be without food. They don't have a tendency to kill each other as far as I know. Then what?
There in lies the question. So I say we who want to, can eat meat and those that don't, don't. That way we even out the problem.
Well even if we set animals free, we're still destroying their homes and they will get shot for being in the way or driven over by a car and then eventually extinct maybe because no one watches for them.
As less people eat meat, less animals will be raised for that purpose. Setting them free and stuff isn't a viable option because people will stop eating meat gradually, not everybody on the same day!
alowed to live out there natural life without the option to reproduce it would take some time though. if they are an endangered spices and there was a chance of relase to a natural habitat sucsessfuly that should also be considered,
is an answer not including my overrall wish for the earth.
everyone will have different opinions.
overall wish for the earth. all humans not liveing a life similar to what they did 2000 years ago should be exterminated along with all animals in captivity. atempts before the extermination of the human race to release some spieces with low numbers should be atemted.
It is the best thing for the planet to have a chance at surviveing. humans will be around for such a small amount of time compared to the age of the earth let alown the age of the universe so what gives us the right to stuff everyting up so much,. Anyway take my first answer as that is the more likly.
*Sits back and waits for the thumbs down to poor in*
They would have to be destroyed; they can't survive in the wild, keeping them on ranches until they die of natural causes would benifit neither humans nor the animals, and finally farm animals (cows, chickens, pigs etc.) would exist only as zoo specimens. Not exactly a happy ending. Meanwhile, to feed a hungry world millions of acres of natural land would have to be destroyed for farmland, displacing & threatening the existence of wild animals.
Depressing, isn't it?
I hope someone comes up with a third option.
I think I need a bacon cheesburger to cheer myself up.