veganism: While I believe in vegetarianism, and even veganism, for health, spirtual and nutritional reasons, this is one point I am stuck on. What would the world do with millions of livestock? |||Perhaps nature would take its course? Of course it would seem like a big problem to have so much cattle in one place but perhaps if the animals were sent to different places around the world it would be less of a cluster. And then of course when placed in their new surrounding the food chain would take over. Just a guess |||it will never happen so who cares|||Just think about it for a minute. Stop raising animals at an artificially high rate to feed people and they stop reproducing at that same rate. It isn't natural for animals to be reproducing so very constantly. Take away the demand and the supply will not continue to increase. It simply wouldn't be practical. That's actually one of the easier questions to answer.|||They'd die off until nature resumes its balance. And they would be much less painful and humiliating deaths.|||Livestock are a HUMAN perpetuated population. If we stopped eating them, farmers would stop making money on them, and therefor farmers would stop breeding them. If we didn't eat beef, there wouldn't be any cattle. Obviously, if everybody just decided overnight the become veggies, that would be a problem. But I don't find "what if's" that are never going to happen to be relevant.|||They would all be killed anyway, so the best thing would be just to stop breeding them.|||The things normal consumed like cows, chickens, and pigs, are born and bred in captivity for the purpose of consumtion. The animal population would not be greatly affected by a global wave of vegetarianism especially since the animal kingdom is subject to its own preador/prey system. |||Most livestock are raised specifically to be slaughtered. So if there was no demand for them, then farmers and ranchers would not raise them.|||Supply & demand. It wouldn't happen all at once so as the demand dwindled, so would the supply.|||they would all join the unicorns and follow them over the rainbow into the world of your own Imagination.|||animals are artifically inseminated to reproduce for meat. It is unnatural and if we just let nature takes its course it would all work out perfectly