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duga · 05-12-2010, 12:46 AM

I'm not sure if this was brought up somewhere in here already, so apologies if it has.

Let's say hypothetically we stop breeding animals for food and let animal numbers fluctuate naturally. We evolved eating plants and meat, so even though we have the intelligence to rationalize killing animals, we are still technically part of the food chain. What if a certain animal (let's say deer), due to our refusal to participate in the food chain, overpopulate and throw the ecosystem into chaos. Would the vegetarians here reconsider?

This isn't me trying to convince people to not be vegetarian, I'm just curious what you guys would think of the situation.

05-12-2010, 12:46 AM	#463 (permalink)
duga MB quadrant's JM Vincent Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Washington, DC Posts: 3,762	I'm not sure if this was brought up somewhere in here already, so apologies if it has. Let's say hypothetically we stop breeding animals for food and let animal numbers fluctuate naturally. We evolved eating plants and meat, so even though we have the intelligence to rationalize killing animals, we are still technically part of the food chain. What if a certain animal (let's say deer), due to our refusal to participate in the food chain, overpopulate and throw the ecosystem into chaos. Would the vegetarians here reconsider? This isn't me trying to convince people to not be vegetarian, I'm just curious what you guys would think of the situation. __________________ Confusion will be my epitaph...