Any Vegetarians/Vegans here?

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If eating meat was banned why would we still be killing the animals? After all the whole point of banning it would be to make you feel better, so now it's ok to kill them? Seems you don't understand.

Obviously ideally the animals would be cared for in animal sanctuaries funded by the government, with the animals being prevented from breeding until either there are none left or we keep some in the animal sanctuaries and breed them so that they can acquire the characteristics to live in the wild. However, it is very unlikely that everyone would turn away from meat eating all at once, and so phasing veganism in could be the more sensible option. Never the less, phasing it in would still induce less suffering than continuing the current cycle of breeding animals for meat eating that currently causes so much suffering.

Personally, I don't want to see meat eating banned. People like it too much, and if the government were to introduce such a thing there would be huge social unrest. No, the most likely thing would be for the number of vegans/vegetarians to increase gradually over say 30 to 100 years. This would reduce the demand for meat, resulting in farmers breeding less animals, until eventually all we would have are a few thousand animals kept in animal sanctuaries, again funded by the government.

So the government is going to spend more money they do not have to pay for animals to live? Yup sounds wonderful. Instead of paying for lazy humans on welfare and MY OWN animals, I will also have to pay for you to be happy with your animals in "sanctuary"!
I'm not going to try and do the math but I bet that will cost more,for the government, than going to war.

Also you know how many years of domestication are in cows. It will be a very long time before they will ever be able to go into the wild.