If everyone became a vegan and it eventually destroyed the planet..?

It would be hard, but I wouldn't want the planet to die out because of me, so I would go back. But there are some things I just would NOT eat. Veal for one thing. Maybe I'll just omit beef and pork. If eating chicken and fish wasn't enough.. I don't know. Suicide maybe D=

EDIT: Do I attract thumbs downs or something? You're telling me you'd want me to keep on going eating nothing but plants while the earth was being destroyed? Wow.. you're nice!

EDIT AGAIN: I swear some of you people are illiterate!! The very FIRST!!!! line he said was "This is very theoretical and highly unlikely, but bear with me."

Meaning IT WOULDN'T HAPPEN BUT PRETEND IT DID!!!!!!!!!!!

Damn!!!!!!

I just don't see how that's possible. Sure it would be damaging to domesticated animals, but it would drastically reduce pollution and waste. There is absolutely no way not eating meat/animal byproducts could screw up our planet more than it is already.

The planet is already dying, animal and plant species are becoming extinct at an alarming rate and the eco-system is beginning to shut down. If that happened I would just think that us all being vegans wasn't working as well as I'd thought it would, although it is the most drastic step I can imagine us taking. I suppose we'd have to ban gasoline.

Becoming a vegan is the best possible thing you could do to help the environment. I wouldn't stop being one because the planet kept worsening.

If everyone became vegan, it would save the planet. Raising animals for food is the #1 cause of greenhouse gases. We would be saving plants by just eating them instead of feeding them to animals and then eating the animal.

Animals and plant species are already becoming extinct at an alarming rate. The planet is dying. So your theory is already coming true.

Spending trillions growing and feeding grains to cycle through the bodies of animals so the gluttonous few can gorge on their flesh while the rest of the planet starves IS actually destroying the planet.

You needn't invent apocalyptic hypotheticals about a situation that's already happening.

No, I'd let everyone else go back to omnivores and I would stay who I am. What's one person going to do anyway??

Just kidding!! That wouldn't happen because if everyone became vegan than there would be MORE resources

This question is not different in form and purpose (= show those veggies how shortsighted and wrong they are) from the infamous and gazillion times "asked":

"If you would end up on a desert island, and the only thing to eat would be a turkey / cow / pig / fish (etc etc etc), then would you do it? Hy-po-the-ti-cally? Do-not-get-me-wrong?"

I will add it to my list of "most useless moron questions vegetarians or vegans get to hear or read"

yawn

environment and respect for all life. are two major factors in my veganism.

its hard to admit when your wrong, but yes i would go back to omnivore in this unlikely scenario.

im not saying this would ever happen, because i don't see how it ever could happen, since people used to survive just on plants, and eating meat is really just eating more plants because all we do is make 10x more plants to then feed to the animals that would never be breed if we didn't eat them. so by not eating meat we would be cutting down on soo much energy, i don't see how that could be a bad thing.

I can tell you one thing that would happen from people stop eating meat is that the animals would get overpopulated and and become diseased. There was a situation in the mid-west a few years ago were they had to put down thousands of deer because of this.

Just do the search on overpopulation of animals, the situation above was caused by the spread of lyme disease caused by the overpopulation.

I am not trying to change anyone's view on being a vegetarian or vegan. To each his own, and I agree that to much meat of any kind is bad for you, and vegetables is a big part of any diet. I love vegetables, I love my meat too.

Now before I get into my next paragraph let me state that I do not believe in animal cruelty. That is something that makes me angry. I do believe in hunting and fishing. I don't believe in night hunting, or hunting illegally in any fashion. All hunters are not the bad boys they are made out to be, you ever heard the saying it only takes one bad apple to ruin a bunch.

It just gets under my skin how some of the vegetarians and vegans down meat eaters and hunters thenspend all this money to campaign against it. This is going to piss someone off, but oh well. I say get a life. There are more important things to spend that money on, how about helping straighten out this economy, there are abused and neglected children out there who need resources(that require money) to help them out of their situation, that money could be used to provide homeless shelters and meals, there are abused and neglected women out there.

Anyway, these are my thoughts on this, I would like to think that there are more that think like me.

Again I am not pointing fingers at all of the vegetarians and vegans. So don't go harping on me that I am trying to get something started, I am not.

ummm.. no.

Because The animals that are being raised for meat eat WAY more than we would consume. One cow has to eat 7 lbs of grain and soy bean protein to produce 1 lb of meat!!!

So while your question does sound like a good question... It wouldnt happen!

I don't think so. most of the grains are used to feed the animals that people eat. most people in developed nations are secondar consumers. meaning they eat foods that have alread eating something else.