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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
The bigger problem though isn't that you'd have to stop breeding more... if this all came about quite suddenly, rather than a gradual reduction in herd sizes / the number of farms, you'd have to actually cull the herds that are already alive. Keeping livestock is expensive, the expense is covered by them being sold for animal produce. If all of a sudden it's impossible to make any money (and therefore, impossible to support them) then you basically have to either deliberately kill them, or let them freeze / starve over winter.
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I'd imagine it would be a gradual thing anyway wouldn't it? That people could chose to eat real meat or lab meat and then start to phase it out altogether? Also, I mean is it that horrific to kill off a herd of cows when that's what happens to them all anyway when they're used for meat?