Source: The Washington Post
quote: Gee, tough question. I suppose they'll live in the wild just as every other animal on this planet does?
quote: Cows would not survive in the wild.
quote: Yes, but current meat and dairy cows are extremely different from wild cattle.
quote: Dude, ALL animals are incredibly dumb. Wtf? You think intelligence has a thing to do with survival?
quote: They also have probably the lowest intellect of any mamal.
quote: The United States is not the center of the universe. Many countries do not have the resources to provide beef at a reasonable cost to the general public. Right now in South America (that's the big chunk of land to our south with a bunch of "minorities" on it) is cutting down rain forest to create land for cows to feed. (thats a bad thing)
quote: Simple facts about cows Cows require 100's of gallons of water that many areas can not provide. They also produce methane that is something like 9x stronger of a green house gas then C02. (ICE emissions) Only in the past few years have farms started to harness the solid waste of cows to produce fuel and power their farms, however most farms do not do that so the gas just escapes into the atmosphere. (also a bad thing)
quote: If we stopped breeding them the large population would die off at some point.
quote: Many countries do not have the resources to provide beef at a reasonable cost to the general public.
quote: The kind of stuff we HAVE to do to sustain a growing population. The earth isn't getting any bigger.
quote: The problem is you are looking at it from the wrong direction. We should be working toward reducing our population rather than enabling it to get even larger. Problem is that humanity is pretty poor at accepting or implementing controls on its basic desire to reproduce.
quote: I think you need to start talking to democrats in your area face to face
quote: Your perspective of the left is totally inaccurate
quote: Look for common ground.
quote: You dont even have to reduce the number of the trees in the world to feed everyone.
quote: Fun fact: America (and other developed nations) throw away annually about half (50%) of all meat sold/delivered.