What would happen.....?

Question

If everyone in the world became a non meat eater, and people stopped killing animals. Where would all these animals go? Could u imagine? the growing rate which they would breed. would they run wild? Would there be a cow zoo? who would fund it? please answer this thoughtfully. if we stopped killing animals, what would happen to them?

wow what a bunch of cry babies....
I just asked a question. Okay, the numbers would go down b/c there wouldn't be forced breeding. But animals are still going to breed, where are they going to go? where are they going to live? are you pissy vegans going to buy land so these animals can have a place to live? what are you going to do with the dead?

Answer 1

sandstorm is a goat f**cker, don't listen to him.
Vegetarians are full of themselves. they are all hypocrites.
we would have to kill animals, the U.S. is too populated with people and people always come first. there just isn't enough room.
and let me guess, next they are going to say animals deserve equal rights too. what about animals that kill other animals? are the vegans going to picket them? its all a bunch of non sense. its funny, how upset they get tho

Answer 2

Lets just say, hypothetically your situation happened. All meat eating is banned, etc. You would have to look at how something such as this would happen. First a law would have to be passed, and then a plan implemented. It would take years for the law to be fully enforced, most likely happening as a 5-10 year plan... "by 20__, there will be no animals commercially bred for food"-something like that. For example, when it was mandated that all cars contain air bags, it wasn't a next day thing(manufacturers didn't begin putting air bags in their cars as soon as the legislation was passed, they had time to redesign models, etc)

People going meatless would not just happen over night. Companies would need time to change some of their products, restaurants would need to change menus, etc. To think that all of a sudden a law would just pop up to ban all meat by tomorrow is a ridiculous notion.

Since the plan would take place over several years, animals would continued to be killed, but not intentionally bred as much (lowering their numbers). Eventually all breeding of the animals would stop and the ones that were still alive would be eaten, or die(as most animals are in bad shape anyway)

There are not going to be millions of chicken, cows and pigs roaming the streets, or a cow zoo. There may still be sanctuaries(if there are any animals left after the ban).

Answer 3

I really don't think veganism will take over that quickly.

It will be a gradual process, taking decades, I am sure, and the industries will breed fewer animals. Right now, 10 billion animals in the U.S. are bred, born, mutilated, and killed for food every year (a total of 50 billion worldwide). Dairy cows spend much of their lives pregnant because they're bred every year to keep producing milk. That's the key word here: bred. As more and more people eat less meat or stop eating meat, fewer animals will be bred. Cows who are impregnated every year may get pregnant every two or three years instead.

So there won't be nearly as many of these animals because there won't be a "need" for them.

Answer 4

Instead of higher numbers of cows & other 'food' animals, the numbers of these species would drop because they would no longer be artificially & exessively bred like they are now. As these numbers drop, the corn, grain, soy etc. that currently goes into livestock feed could go to humans & dramatically reduce world hunger. More water would also be available for human use. One source of global warming would be eliminated & certain human diseases would decrease.
As for wild animals, their numbers wouldn't get out of hand either. Habit loss for many species is already so severe that these species are unlikely to fully recover. The populations of deer & other animals could be naturally controlled if humans stopped killing off natural preditors.

Answer 5

There would definitely be an over-abundance of animals. We'd have to find a way to slow down the breeding rate, that's for sure. I think if we didn't do something about that, we'd have an "Animal Farm" on our hands to deal with, you know?

I don't think it's right to kill an animal just for sport. That's just wrong. WAY wrong. If it's to feed and clothe yourself or your family, that's okay. (obviously I'm not vegan or anything) But... one should never hunt and skin an animal unless it's for the afore mentioned reason.

The only other time I would condone the killing of an animal, is if it were trying to attack me or my family. Like, a bear decided he/she wanted what ever my family was eating on a camp out (and they really will rip a van apart to get to food) and they came charging at us. Then I'd be screaming SHOOT IT!! SHOOT IT!!

I like your question. It does make one stop and think about it.... even if only for a moment.

Answer 6

Most of the farm species would die out (or close to it) a few would be kept as pets a few in zoos, but we won't have herds of wild cows roaming the west.

Answer 7

if people stopped breeding all the animals the species would eventually even out and the cows and chickens and pigs would roam wild with the horses!!!
awesome world, huh?

Answer 8

We wouldn't stop killing them.

We would stop breeding them.

Those that would not be sterilized would be euthanized.

We would have a dramatic increase in the number of farm sanctuaries. http://www.farmsanctuary.org

Answer 9

They would wind up on Mikey H's, Cornwall Refuge for Animals. Then instead selling his hay to someone to fatten cattle and slaughter them for financial gain --- he could feed them his hay and slaughter them himself and eliminate the middle man.

All the while being a top contributor to V&V forum and condeming other folks for "animal cruelty".