*Before I start, I am a vegetarian and I'm just wondering*
I don't know if any other UKers saw it, but I saw a bit of a program yesterday called "The Lie Of The Land". One of the farmers on there was saying how if animals weren't raised for meat they wouldn't exist, as they are very expensive to raise. I understand this, and as he said if everyone went vegetarian there wouldn't be the cows in the field etc because no one will keep them as pets. This isn't a nice thought.
But then I thought we have "rare breed farms" because farmers usually use modern breeds which are more economical, so the cows in the field probably aren't actually the older breeds which should be saved.
On the other hand, there are butchers who sell rare breeds meat because this means there's a demand for it, so the breed increases in numbers. If there wasn't a demand for the meat the rare breed may become rarer.
I hadn't really thought about this much before; I'm mainly veggie because we don't need to eat animals anymore so why do so. What are people's thoughts on this? Would animals really all disappear / what do you think about that scenario?
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I don't know if any other UKers saw it, but I saw a bit of a program yesterday called "The Lie Of The Land". One of the farmers on there was saying how if animals weren't raised for meat they wouldn't exist, as they are very expensive to raise. I understand this, and as he said if everyone went vegetarian there wouldn't be the cows in the field etc because no one will keep them as pets. This isn't a nice thought.
But then I thought we have "rare breed farms" because farmers usually use modern breeds which are more economical, so the cows in the field probably aren't actually the older breeds which should be saved.
On the other hand, there are butchers who sell rare breeds meat because this means there's a demand for it, so the breed increases in numbers. If there wasn't a demand for the meat the rare breed may become rarer.
I hadn't really thought about this much before; I'm mainly veggie because we don't need to eat animals anymore so why do so. What are people's thoughts on this? Would animals really all disappear / what do you think about that scenario?
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