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RE: Vegan & Revolutionary Meatless Burger By 'Impossible Foods'! Meat Eaters Can't Taste The Difference! Startup Raised Over $180 Million! (News In Science And Technology)
It makes we wonder how many animals will go extinct if traditional meat-eaters keep heading this way or just stick to the supermarket meats.
Hundreds of species of farm animals (rare and heritage breeds of livestock) have gone extinct in recent years. Though I'll all for animals not being raised in packed, concrete cages, I do believe that the trend in certain livestock going extinct will continue.
Personally, I'm doing what I can, and posted THIS last night to explain why if no one is eating certain kinds of animals, they will disappear from existence.
They were inbred to start with. As some of the variants may go extinct, the species is unlikely to die out. Same as if you stopped breeding designer pets (animal abuse), the species of cat or dog would not go extinct easily. Also it is not a solution to keep consuming cattle. The solution would be to create sanctuaries for them.
I was under the impression that many people these days desired to preserve the various species that exist within the various kinds of animals. Would you consider it appropriate to let all species of frogs die worldwide as long as one particular species, like the Bullfrog, was still preserved? I think that most would consider that a tragedy and not a success because technically the frog kind had not gone extinct.
The frogs you are talking about are variety of wild species not inbred breeds. We should not allow any wild animal to perish. Also, because it has dramstic effect on ecosystems. Domesticated animals have little positive effect on ecosystems. Often they actually have detrimental effect due to large numbers. Most of them would never survive if left without human supervision. Inbreeding of pets must stop. It's pure cruelty, because those designer pets suffer from many physical disabilities and illnesses.
When it comes to livestock bred for meat or milk, they should be prevented from breeding until their numbers dramatically decrease. Then remaining ones should be kept in large sanctuaries where they would be conditioned to become more and more independent from humans, generation after generation.
Before the numbers of livestock decrease they should be kept in farm's as they are and treated with care until most of them die out peacfully within next decade or more. Governments must subsidise their upkeep in the meantime (this is a big challenge)
Interesting point of view, and I understand where you are coming from more now, but as a lover of animals, I don't hold the Highland Cattle or Mulefoot Hogs (for example) responsible for their origin. To me, they now exist as valid species and just like wild frogs or other animals, I am concerned about their preservation. Perhaps I may be in error for feeling this way, but I appreciate all the variety that I can observe within animal species, even if they came into existence through negative human manipulation.