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Rorik1356 t1_j2zrnkc wrote

Reply to comment by The_Paradoxigm in How many animals do you eat in your lifetime? by ImplementAny4362

I have often wondered... if everyone went vegan, would anyone keep livestock alive? In the case of cattle, there ancestor is extinct... so would these animals just go extinct?

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The_Paradoxigm t1_j2ztceo wrote

Maybe not extinct, but billions would be needlessly killed. That I can guarentee

Without a market for them there's no monetary investment for farmers to keep them alive. The leather and animal feed industries don't require that level of volume.

There'd be a HUGE culling.

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[deleted] t1_j3044nn wrote

The point of veganism is to try to reduce that harm, so if everyone adopted that ideology, they would be huge hypocrites to kill them.

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