What would happen if everyone went Vegan?

I'm a vegetarian, and for a while I was a vegan, but it wasn't exactly a choice that I made. It was something I was born into, and it is merely a part of who I am. I have no problem with people eating meat, and I even know how to cook what I hear is a pretty good stake. I also enjoy the idea of hunting and fished as a child.

And there are both vegetarian and vegan alternatives to meat, containing less calories and often more good nutrients. Being vegan, I have to admit, is not natural. We need calcium to build strength, especially in our bones. Humans merely did not evolve to not drink milk, eat eggs, etc.

However, we did evolve with vegetarian-friendly digestive systems. In fact, our bodies take better to a vegetarian diet, as meat takes a very long time for us to digest, and all that time it and it's parasites are inside of us. Though, in the olden days, we did require meat and many people at it at least once a week - sometimes more, if they had money or a hunter/farmer in the family.

In modern day, we have the choice due to vast resources and acces to vitamins and supplements to be vegan or vegetarian. It doesn't matter, because either way we can receive the correct nutrients.

If all humans went vegan, there would be a lot more animals, a lot less overweight people, and a lot less tapeworms. However, as you said animals would still probably be killed for wool and leather. But it's never going to happen anyway. The likelihood of the entire world deciding to become vegan is just, so impossible it's ridiculous.

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Well, the answer to all your questions: People have been vegetarian for generations in this third world country where I come from. Majority of the people here haven't even tasted meat or even even know what meat is. They have been living for centuries without depending on meat. This country of mine is primarily an agricultural country and we depend on agriculture for food. No one here takes supplements because basically 90% of the people here don't even know what a supplement is, because we've never ever needed them and the only ones who died of malnutrition here are the ones who are below the poverty line and could not afford three meals a day, NOT because they were vegetarian. Secondly we aren't self righteous at all. We believe in peace and equality between humans and animals and that's why I as a vegan do not look down on you who is a meat eater because the vegan philosophy itself forbids that. It states that all beings are equal and that's why I look at you, the animal you killed for food, and another vegetarian equally.

Thirdly, you ask "Wouldn't the animal population in general be overpopulated?"

No, because we were the ones who over bred them in the first place. So no, they won't be overpopulated, they would return to their original numbers as the depends for meat drops gradually.

Lastly, no people wouldn't be out of jobs because everyone isn't going to go vegan overnight. It will be a gradual and slow process and new alternative jobs will start appearing here and there.

Also, we will have more crops to feed people because it takes less quantities to feed people and more quantity to feed animals.

If everyone went vegan the planet could heal! First we would have a lot of free range farm animals it they would quickly die out. Then whatever was eating them would have spiked in growth but that would even out once the food supply was gone. Then previously farmed land would likely be used to farm vegetables. Although we wouldn't need all of it because all the vegetables that were being grown to feed livestock could now feed humans. So some of the land could be open meadow, we could plant trees, etc. then emissions would drop drastically so we might see an improvement in the air quality surrounding farm towns and eventually an impact on the currently depleting ozone. Then people would be healthier so we would have more money to spend on fun and less on healthcare. Doctors would be needed less and would probably make less. I would guess some amazingly delicious vegan food would quickly be invented and innovation would be abundant. No more people being mean to each other about diets!

Contrary to popular belief, a vegan is a person who doesn't use anything that has animal products. So wool and leather industries would die out. I apologize on behalf of people shoving vegan beliefs at you, but once you learn about the sheer insanity that goes on in factory farms it's hard not to share it. Once you read a book or see a documentary on factory farming, it haunts you. Not because you've seen disturbing images but because you've gained the knowledge that this torture is being inflicted every moment of every day whether you see it or not. We feel powerless because just one person refusing to participate in the cruelty will not shut these factories down. So we feel obligated to educate others in an attempt to stop this needless suffering. Because the only way to end these practices in our capitalist society is to lobby our shutdown government or get people to stop buying animal products.

Factory farming is an incredibly profitable industry. For example, Smithfield, one of the world's largest pork producers, made a profit of $3.4 billion in the first quarter of this year alone. So there is a huge amount of propaganda to make us believe that we need dairy and meat products. This just isn't true. When I first considered going vegan, I asked four nutritionists at different times what they thought of it. I got an overwhelmingly positive response. One even lifted me up onto his shoulders. He said, "Awesome! Vegan works so well! I tell all my clients to think about it. It's the easiest and healthiest way to get in shape and lose weight." And according to another (with an 8-pack), "[He] was vegan for two years. [He] was never more cut in [his] life, you could see the fiber of every muscle [he] had."

Also workers on factory farms have the highest rate of injury and accidental deaths than any other workers in America. And their average rate of pay is less than $8 an hour. I don't think these are the jobs we want to be preserving.

And farm animals would not die out. Their are wild breeds of pigs, chickens, cows, sheep, goats, and turkeys. Also there are dozens of breeds of these animals that are bred for ornamental value and to become pets.

They'd be killed as competition for food alternatively than a source. They might no longer be launched into the wild with out harmful the eco approach. Most of them would die out alternatively swiftly as they aren't good perfect to dwelling on their own. There can be exceptions. Bear in mind within the old west cattle were free variety and did survive. Chickens have a high-quality capacity to go feral in many areas. As do pigs ( a serious drawback in some situation ) Goats do too. Geese would besides probably the most long-established breeds on farms had been bred to now not fly making them easy prey. Turkeys would die out speedily because additionally they do not fly. A few of them might continue to exist lengthy enough to breed with wild turkeys and alter the gene pool. Sheep possibly equipped to survive relying on what predators are round. The extinction of home animals is the agenda of PETA.

1. Vastly MORE crops are required for animal husbandry- what do you think those billions of animals eat, exactly?

2. Species do not have ethical interests- individuals do. YES, a species not existing is preferable to individual members of it being bred, confined, tortured, and slaughtered for human whims.

3. The same thing that happens "economically" whenever popular morality changes- people adapt.

Do you know how many slave overseers were put out of jobs by the Emancipation Proclamation?

4. There are no nutrients found only in animal products, let alone only in meat. That's laughable. The vegans you know take VEGAN SUPPLEMENTS. Which aren't needed, if one eats a varied diet.

5. The "animal population" is already overpopulated, if by that you mean vastly increased numbers from what would exist naturally, due to human demand. It's vastly UNDERpopulated, if we're talking about destruction of whole ecosystems and species to provide crops to feed livestock.

So no, it's not "better that many people" continue to eat the antibiotic and hormone filled flesh of slaughtered sentient beings, putrifying the air, groundwater, and oceans, starving to death millions of people who could be fed with the grain used to fatten domestic livestock several times over, and killing themselves by the millions with cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and other dietary-related illnesses.

Are you "self righteous" when you compare yourself to a murderer? Is murdering a personal, "life choice"?

^Calcium is found a-plenty in dark leafy greens, among many other vegan foods.

Even if it wasn't, proclaiming it "natural" for one species to drink the MAMMARY SECRETIONS OF ANOTHER, AND PAST INFANCY, is beyond hilarious. The ability to digest lactase is a genetic anomaly, which is why the majority of people in the world, outside the dairy-obsessed West, are lactose-intolerant.

Moreover, NO, animals would NOT still be killed for leather and wool if the world went vegan, because VEGANISM IS OPPOSITION TO ANIMAL COMMODIFICATION.

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I agree with what LOLwut said.

Your questions aren't "condescending or rude" so much as they are ignorant.

Vegans feel "self righteous" because they ARE right:

what you choose to eat impacts millions of people, the environment, and countless animals.

It'll be a "personal choice" when hell freezes over.

You are a dumbass for thinking that anyone (especially in the west) needs to eat meat or else the world will go out of wack and be destroyed! lol no. It won't. We will see the day that everyone (or atleast most people) are veg*n.

Wow. You're the one that comes off as self-righteous..

What if EVERYONE went vegan? Animals everywhere would be very, very happy.