• Shizrak
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    6 hours ago

    What about the end goal of all this? If people stop eating cows, and then we stop keeping and breeding cattle because no one is eating them, where do all the cows go?

    • whyalone@lemm.ee
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      6 hours ago

      Same situation as what happened to the horses when cars were invented and then they became obsolete.

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        5 hours ago

        So drastic population decline, then?

        I just worry that if humanity no longer has a use for cattle, they would likely be seen as a nuisance and driven to extinction.

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          5 hours ago

          I am pretty sure cattle will still be exploited indefinitely if not for their meat, then for their milk, so much cheese culture is built around it that I cannot see it stopped in the near future. Let’s see how that lab meat will turn out to be

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        5 hours ago

        The cows are headed to the horse and orphan grinder, I guess. Sad times.