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|Not if they're cooked/blended properly and you have good [[gut flora]]. {{npn}} | |Not if they're cooked/blended properly and you have good [[gut flora]]. {{npn}} | ||
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|Aren't chickens needed on farms to control pests by eating the bugs that infest crops? | |||
|Sometimes yes. However, this alone wouldn't even come close to producing as much chicken as people eat. | |||
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|What about [[fertilizer]]? Don't we need animals to fertilize the soil by pooping? | |||
|Animals don't add minerals to the overall system. They can only poop out whatever minerals were already there in the soil/plants. Also, mass production of meat/dairy/eggs requires more crops, which just increases the need for fertilizer even more. | |||
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'''Q:''' <q>What to do with all the animals if everyone goes vegan?</q> | |||
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* Option 1: Keep them until they die of old age. | |||
* Option 2: Keep slaughtering them at the same rate they currently are. | |||
* In either case, the farmers '''stop breeding more animals'''{{x|except to maintain the species by keeping around ~0.1% of their population{{x|maybe that's more in the realm of scientists, conservationists, zookeepers etc. - but no matter who does it, it's [[Term:viable|viable]]}} }}. | |||
* In either case, people would still eat meat ''for another year or so'', after '''pledging''' to go vegan. | |||
* Maybe the "pledge" part is weird and hypothetical, but so is the idea of everyone going vegan tomorrow. | |||
* If everyone ''gradually''{{x|as in, people slowly phase out meat in their diets - or people go "cold turkey" vegan but each starting from a different day - or anything in between: there wouldn't need to be a whole lot of coordination between people necessarily; just a general trend of being more plant-based}}went vegan, there'd be no "shock in demand"{{x|as economists would say}}, and thus no "what do we do with the animals". Farmers already control how many animals are bred. They would just breed fewer of them. | |||