• Surface_Detail@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    You’re skipping over a hell of a lot of points with your ‘just let them live in peace’ bit. There are tens of millions of livestock just in my country that are entirely capable of living in the wild because that’s how they currently live. In the UK, cows live in fields for ten months of the year and sheep live in fields throughout. There they are given antibiotics and protected from predators.

    You let them out without anyone to take care of them and they will die by the millions every year. Do you know how many yows would die giving birth without human invention? Do you know the survival rate of twin lambs without human intervention? Do you think a life of disease, exposure and predation is better than the life they currently have?

    The species as a whole would survive, but at a much lower population and in much worse conditions.

    I swear vegans spout off about things they know nothing about.

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      1 year ago

      You can just stop breeding them. I have no problems with all domestic animals going extinct. It’s hilarious how meat eaters are appalled by that idea but gladly torture and murder animals just to feast on their carcasses.

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        You understand they breed themselves, right? The same species that were native to the area for millions of years before industrialisation will continue to survive there afterwards, just in much worse conditions and at a much lower population.

        You have no problem with animals dying in pain as long as it stops them dying painlessly? Awesome

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          You really need to educate yourself about the meat and dairy industry. It is quite obvious that you aren’t making a rational or moral decision, but an emotional one. The overwhelming majority of animals in this industry do not breed themselves. It is easy to stop it from happening at all. And what species are you talking about anyway? Farm animals aren’t native anywhere and haven’t lived for a million of years. They were created by humans.