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Old 05-06-2009, 04:17 PM   #432
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Originally Posted by Sowa View Post
Your argument is all based on opinion, not fact. Animals that aren't domesticated die of starvation and disease? Is this a more common cause of death than being slaughtered on a factory farm? I guess it's morally subjective if you make up scenarios that would happen if we stopped domesticating animals for food purposes.

There is a book called "The World Without Us" that looks into this. The book imagines what would happen if all humans just disappeared one day. There was a chapter about animals. Cows and other livestock are defenceless with humans keeping away predators. In addition, due to sheer size and number of the modern food cows, there would not be enough natural grassland to support them and they over consume the land and/or split off from each other making it easier for predation

The neat thing, the modern house cat would become the top predator in the urban environment as all cats retain their natural hunting instincts. They'll pretty much eat all of the small animals found in the urban setting
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