What happens to the animals that vegetarians save?!
What do you think? Can someone inform me?
Answers: I'm a vegetarian, and I'm against the creutly of animals. Lately I've been wondering, though, what happens to the animals we save? I hear people say that animals were meant to be eaten. And I can't find a reason why else to keep them on Earth, except to have a happy free life, which we ALL deserve to have - humans AND animals.
What do you think? Can someone inform me?
Well, unless you physically took the animal home with you or to a safe haven shelter, it is still actually killed. The "vegetarians saves animals" is just a theoretical value.and mostly symbolic. The number of animals killed divided by the number of people then multiplied by the number of vegetarians. But in reality, no animal is spared because a vegetarian exists. Symbolic because it signifies the concept that the individual vegetarian does not and no longer contributes to the animal food industry.
But don't stop because it may not be having an impact. You are doing what you think is right and that's what counts
The average vegetarian prevents about 100 animals from being bred and slaughtered every year. Being vegetarian doesn't "save" animals in the sense of directly rescuing them, but it prevents them from being born into hellish conditions.
The number of animals that are bred and slaughtered depends directly on the consumer demand for meat. Every time we refrain from purchasing meat, we reduce this consumer demand and ensure that fewer animals will be bred and forced to suffer in the future.
Hope that answers your question.
PETA estimates that the average person consumes about 100 animals each year.
We live in a consumer-driven world and animals are treated as a commodity. If demand goes down, supply will eventually decrease. Commercially-farmed animals are bred to die and end up on plates... It's a pretty sad circle of life and death for those animals.
As vegetarians, we can have some assurance that we are making an impact in the lives of some animals. Blessings...
i agree
but its going to take so much for people to ever see
joe bloggs wouldnt like it if someone ate his dog
but he doesnt care about eating a cow
its not right
i agree
its so sad that it hasnt changed
one baby step at a time, you know? like we've gotten so many makeup and cosmetic companies to stop testing on animals but i reckon it'll be about 50 years before we're all vegan. they need to invent something like willy wonkas 3 course meal bubble gum - something that tastes the same or they wont give up.
the people who eat all the meat tho are also eating so many chemicals its not funny. it makes me sick.
anyway the answer to where do they go? honestly.. the other people eat them. we save them for a day, the next person eats them tomorrow. but at least we gave them a day today. in a year we'll be able to give them a week?
:)
nothing
They are never born or live ones are adopted.
Mainly, being vegetarian lowers the amount of meat animals produced in the future. Less demand drives the price down so while the current meat will be cheaper, there will be less animals created in the immediate future and the price will rise again, but there will be less animals involved.
The animals that vegetarians don't eat aren't bred to begin with. If, for example, 10% of the country became vegetarian tomorrow, there would be 10% less meat sold. Grocery stores would respond by ordering 10% less meat because they don't want to stock a product they can't sell. The animal foods industry would respond by breeding, feeding, medicating and slaughtering 10% fewer animals because it's too expensive for them to raise animals they can't sell. When people say being vegetarian saves 100 animals per year, it's not like there's a farm where 100 animals are sent to live our their days in peace; it's 100 animals that aren't born into brutality to begin with.
Well some one else eats it eventually you may have gave it one more day of life but id eat at least 10lbs of meat while sitting next to you just to spark a vegetarian rage
When we stop consuming animals, we provide less demand for the products. If producers continue to supply those animals we are not buying anymore, they create an oversupply of meat and the price falls. This filters down to the farm, and if the price of their stock is low they can only produce fewer animals due to the cost of raising them in the first place.
Right now meat prices are being dictated not by demand but by the price of oil- so the high cost at the supermarket goes into the farmers hand but then into the pockets of the oil companies. So you don't even need to drive a giant SUV to keep the oil co's rich! Just keep eating those burgers.
If you are thinking about the animals rescued from farms by animal rights groups, most of them are euthanised as they were too sick to be on the farm in the first place. The ones that recover go on to live happy lives in sanctuaries. But they usually don't live anywhere near as long as those that weren't born into a factory farm.
Billybob- my vegetarian rage will be sated by your myocardial infarct
More for the rest of us.
They die. Like they should. There is a little thing called the food chain. Man has been killing and eating animals since the beginning of time. Now why in the world should we try and change that? This is going to sound cruel. but animals don't have souls, so it really doesn't metter if we kill them to eat. They do have feelings, and I think it is wrong to abuse them, but not simply shooting them. It goes so fast they have no idea it even happened.
They are either never born or reach and age too old for human consumption and are killed for pet food and other products.
they are kept longer in the slaughter house
I eat 'em!
...have fun eating brocolli for the rest of your life!
they get killed and eaten by other non vegetarians
and dude the do have a happy free life
its all nature
animals eat other animals
were animals
why cant we eat other animals