A though occurred to me while I was shopping at Whole Foods with The Girlfriend: in the vegetarian utopia where humans finally give up eating meat altogether, what will happen to the species we’ve domesticated? Presumably some of them, like the genetically-modified pigs that are specially engineered to live in a single stall and be fattened up, will just die out. But what about the more durable ones? Are we picturing cows just wandering around, eating grass? And presumably even though we’re not killing them to eat them, they’ll still die — what would be done with the meat? Would it just be left to rot?
I’m sure that some thought has been given to these questions, specifically by people with some proximity to this blog. (I hope those people will read this post as a genuine question instead of me swooping into their territory making completely uninformed claims to have found a massive blind spot in their thought, etc.)
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