If beef and dairy products were outlawed what would we do with the cows?!
If beef and dairy products were outlawed what would we do with the cows?
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Cow herds are not and never have been kept as pets..they are kept as food..if we all became vegetarian these animals would be left to die out or slaughtered and not replaced...vegetarians don't save any animals lives...
use them for leather
and feed them to other animals...
GO COW TIPPING!
They would be our lovely pets... giving us endless supply of grass fertilizer... Natural too...
They would take the place of the migrants doing all the menial jobs.
wear them
Use them for pleasure? Ride them?
I would have one as a pet. I love cows
DREAM ON..!!!
cows are really good at converting hay into fertilizer.
keep them as pets.. lol :)
Use them to cut grass and their waste as fertilizer.
They would be pets
go cow tipping
feed them a lot ,then use all the methane gas they produce,from both ends, to power cars .
Farmers would stop raising them and there would be no more cows.Cows have to be raised by man because they are not a wild animal and dont run loose to breed
yose them like the native americans do with the buffilo
pension them off.
We would wind-up emulating those in other countries who consider bovine sacred as well as signs of wealth...the more cows one owns the higher his status in society, etc.
Or would we?
After a week or two MY status would plummet - pronto.
We had a cow once we used just for milk. She was actually a good pet. We could call her just like a dog and here she come running out of the woods. Just remember, they not make a good house pet as they hard to house train. :-D
I wonder if we would put them in Zoos or animal sanctuaries? Maybe even have themas pets if we bread them as minitures.
Not all vegetarians are vegetarians for "animal rights" reasons . . . some just for health's sake . . . in response to litttle_b0_beep's comment.
Let them live their lives.
If greedy farmers didn't breed so many cows unnaturally, this wouldn't be a problem!!
I guess they would be kept as pets. Actually I can see a war break out amongst the meat eaters for a chance to eat one of the last remaining cows.
All food animals consume several times more grain than they produce as meat. So several times as much land is needed to grow grain to feed animals, several times as much energy is used to harvest the grain and transport it, several times as much water is necessary, several times as much pesticides, etc. Worldwide petroleum reserves would be exhausted in 11 years if the rest of the world ate like the U.S. The least energy-efficient plant food is 10 times as efficient as the most efficient meat food. A nationwide switch to a pure vegetarian diet would allow us to cut our oil imports by 60%.
Over half of the water used in the U.S. is used to grow feed for livestock. It takes 100 times as much water to produce meat than to produce wheat. The water required to produce a day's diet for a typical American is 4,000 gallons. (It's 1,200 for vegetarians and 300 for vegans.) Compared to a vegan diet, three days of a typical American diet requires as much water as you use for showering all year (assuming you shower every day).
U.S. Livestock produce 250,000 pounds of waste per second -- 20 times as much as humans. A large feedlot produces as much waste as a large city, but without a sewage system. Animal waste washed into rivers and lakes causes increased nitrates, phosphates, ammonia, and bacteria, and decreases the oxygen content. This kills plant and animal life. The meat industry account for three times as much harmful organic waste as the rest of the industries in the U.S. combined.
It takes ten times as much land to produce food for an average American compared to a pure vegetarian. An acre of land can produce 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but only 165 pounds of beef. In the U.S., 260 million acres of forest have been destroyed for use as agricultural land to support our meat diet (over 1 acre per person). Since 1967, the rate of deforestation has been one acre every five seconds. For every acre cleared for urban development, seven acres are cleared to graze animals or grow feed for them.
Around 85% of topsoil loss is directly associated with raising livestock. We have lost 75% of our topsoil. The USDA says crop productivity is down 70% as a result of topsoil loss. It takes nature 500 years to build an inch of topsoil. Vegan diets make less than 5% of the demands on the soil as meat-based diets.
Around eight billion animals are killed for food every year in the U.S. alone -- a number greater than the entire human population of the planet. Each meat-eating American eats the equivalent of about 24 animals per year. What's worse, modern agricultural methods mean that animals are raised in cramped confinement operations instead of the pastures from childhood picture books -- a practice known as factory farming. Chickens are crammed into cages with no free space, and are debeaked to keep them from pecking each other to death. Animals are pumped full of various powerful drugs to kill diseases resulting from filthy living conditions, and to make them grow or produce faster than nature intended. When cows and chickens stop producing as much milk and eggs as the younger animals, they're unceremoniously slaughtered and made into low-grade meat (fast food and pet food). For some, vegetarianism and veganism are ways to refuse to participate in the commodification of animals
they would be set free and not produce as much waste as they do in factory farms
use them 4 wot they give best milk which most of us drink. and yes they can surply good fertiliser. and as meateaters wud say a lovely warm coat how cruel is that???????
Oh come on, who'd pay to keep those animals if there was no profit in it?
Neither do I think setting them wild would be, for the most part, feasible, so it's be one last job for the slaughterhouse.