Do you think there will ever come a time when Humans stop killing animals and eating them for food?

Why? We're omnivorous. Plus they're yummy.

I reckon it's inevitable that lab grown meat will eventually take the place of animal meat at some point in humanity's future and people will look back at this time period and brand us barbarians for eating animals.

I'm not a veggie by the way, but it seems like a logical progression.

Excellent. Make species dependent on us extinct.

I'm talking about humanity in the potentially distant future though, so not really reliant on fears or the culture of today.

Not a bean when it will be (could be 500 years away!) I just reckon it's inevitable at some point as we already have lab grown meat.

The reasons for such? Who knows? maybe to help alleviate global hunger problems when the worlds population hits many times what it is now? Maybe out of some religious cause which takes over in the year 2500?

Maye, when they stop tasting so goods!

We no longer have apex predators in many environments and what about domesticated animals that no longer have a wild equivalent or the environment to support them. What happens when animal husbandry is no longer profitable?

What shall they eat then ?

The population has always grown as much as possible - before the industrial revolution we were saying similar stuff - "how will we feed even more people? The planet is overpopulated!". If the population grows too large, there are famines or wars and then enough people die off for it all to be sustainable again.

The industrial revolution and advances in agriculture meant the previous bottleneck on human population was removed and so we shot up, but soon we'll hit that limit again. Its inevitable that we will hit that point where there just isnt enough food to keep feeding everyone. Not everyone will die off though - only those without secure source of food - which I guess is everyone dependent on lab grown meat

I've been thinking about this recently. The other night I watched a David Attenborough program, in which he said that the amount of land required to grow enough plants to sustain us, is far less than the amount of land required to feed us meat. I think it was around 20%, but it could have been 50% (someone spoke in the room just as he said it). Then he showed a beef farm that was rewilded, they just planted a few of the original species of plants, and left the place to its own devices. Animals not seen for years were suddenly popping up in this new forest, not re-introduced, they just made their way back over time. It was amazing. If I was told tomorrow we're getting rid of meat and these are the benefits that will accrue, I'd be all for it. I've recently made a couple of meals in which I replaced meat with lentils/beans and they were fine.

In fact, just this morning I bought two packets of veggie sausages, to be served to some veggie visitors tomorrow. TWO PACKETS!! says MrsN, yep, we're going to try them as well. As in 'the Royal WE'.

I'm sure they are delighted to be squashed in barns by the billions and among the most populous species of mammals and birds on the entire earth and bred their entire joyless life all to become one human dinner, all in the name of keeping these select few species 'alive' of course . Of all the arguments in favour this is thw weakest and weirdest tbh. If and when a viable synthetic meat replacement is created of course the practice should become redundant and if you are really that worried about the extinction of the species I'm sure we can keep a few chickens and cows in our local zoos for children in year 2150 to gawk at in awe

'Extinction' has negative impacts because all wild animals are part of food chains and their removal causes disfunction to that evolved chain. Cows and chickens etc are removed from that, they do nothing for the world but feed us and damage the natural environment. Their effective 'extinction' would be good for the world no matter what you look at it.

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