Eating less Meat won't save the Planet Debunked

[mucifer]

[samnsara]

1. i know it needs to be done, but what becomes of the cows and other meat animals?

..they are only alive because we consume them

my confession is: I am a reluctant vampire.. I eat my steaks blood rare. I cant imagine a plant based rib eye

[stevil]

2. They'll make great pets

[mucifer]

3. If there is a vegan restaurant near you, you could try it. But, even cutting back helps the animals.

There are a lot of great recipes on the internet.

https://www.vegansociety.com/go-vegan/how-go-vegan

To answer your question about the animals, they live very short horrific lives. If everyone went vegan it would happen slowly. We each have the choice of what we eat.

Some info on factory farming:
https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/facts-about-the-lives-of-factory-farmed-animals/

[Ziggysmom]

4. And don't forget it wastes over 1800 gallons of precious water to produce just

ONE pound of beef

I’m a near vegan who admits to falling off the wagon sometimes for the evil temptress of cheese.

[netrace]

5. Over time, as the demand shrinks so would the need to breed these animals.

The end result is that you would have less and less around to be processed and consumed. Good question, but it's not like everyone would stop eating meat at the same time and we'd have all these animals standing around.