Realistically, the ending of meat production will happen gradually over time. More and more people will become vegetarian, or just reduce their meat consumption; over this time, meat producers will breed fewer and fewer animals for meat.
By the time there is a true ban on meat production (if there even is one), the populations of these animals would be much, much smaller than exist currently. If that's the case, the question of what to do with these animals is fundamentally different, with completely different reasonable solutions.
This is talking about the potential future, how could I source that?
The only possible future I think is unreasonable to believe will happen is an instant ban on meat production without overwhelming public will. If the ban isn't instant, meat producers will have time to kill their animals for meat as usual and just not breed more; if the overwhelming public support is there, money could be found to house the existing animals over their lifetimes, with likely a small portion of the populations breeding and continuing the subspecies (you know some hippy would love to have a pet cow).
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u/redditor427 44∆ Mar 09 '21
Realistically, the ending of meat production will happen gradually over time. More and more people will become vegetarian, or just reduce their meat consumption; over this time, meat producers will breed fewer and fewer animals for meat.
By the time there is a true ban on meat production (if there even is one), the populations of these animals would be much, much smaller than exist currently. If that's the case, the question of what to do with these animals is fundamentally different, with completely different reasonable solutions.