• saltesc@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I often wonder which animals would just go extinct if we stopped farming them. And which ones would trade in a shorter life of food, shelter, safety, and health instead of being in the wild and surviving, constantly preyed on.

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        3 months ago

        Animals aren’t concerned with extinction and don’t have committees to vote on what kind of life they should have. They just want to live.

        Many would go extinct as they were bred to be killed, not to survive in nature. I’m not sure if you were going there, but that’s not an argument to not stop farming them. The intention here is to stop this cycle where hundreds of billions a year are born into a disfigured body, then live hell and suffering and misery then killed. They should go extinct and that should stop.

      • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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        3 months ago

        Well, Aurochs has gone extinct because of humans. Domesticated cow would likely have huge mortality rates due to inflamed udders the first few generations (things like this fix themselves fast).