RE: Any Vegetarians/Vegans here?
January 27, 2014 at 6:26 pm
(This post was last modified: January 27, 2014 at 6:28 pm by Bad Wolf.)
(January 27, 2014 at 4:54 pm)jg2014 Wrote: Well meat/poultry sales in the US in 2009 was $154.8 billion. Which is about 1% of GDP. While there would be decreased costs from not having to transport/kill/breed/ the animals in addition to not having to treat diseases caused by overfeeding, there could be an increased cost due to the improved animal welfare.This figure would then come down substantially as the animals died of natural causes.
So you would just let the species go extinct?
(January 27, 2014 at 6:08 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Neither do babies. That makes it okay to club them in the head and eat them!
Ah not exactly the best comparison seeing as if you don't club babies in the head, they will go on to have the same range of emotions as we do.
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