An individual animal does not matter in macro biological terms.. They profited as a SPECIES from the domestication,
So Black Africans profited as a "species" from being transported to the Americas and bred there to produce more slaves - to the extent that in many areas the slaves ended up outnumbering the slavemasters. What a success in macrobiological terms! BTW, if anybody is inclined to express outrage at my likening of a situation involving human beings with one involving animals - or even accuse me of "racism" - I am waiting with a reply.
since they would not number billions today and would not be able to colonize all the continents where humans went.
Most animal families colonized the world before humans did - including the arctic and antarctic. Cattle, dogs, cats, elephants, horses. You name it. Like humans, they evolved special physical characteristics to survive in diverse environments.
They would die out as a species...
Their wild relatives have been and continue to be wiped out to make way for them. Bison in North America were replaced with cows. A bad trade off.
Cow numbers would dwindle...
Boo hoo!
chickens would probably vanish, since even stray cats and dogs would eliminate all of them
And they would be replaced by wild animals with a far better ability to fight or flee predators. Anyhow, a few domestic species could be kept as pets.
In the end of the day, i will not stop eating a food that gave birth to the Homo Sapiens as a species.... You can stop, i don't care but please do not come and tell me how disgusting it is or how sad the little piggy moma is that i am eating the little piglet...
Look YOU are justifying meat eating on the grounds that it's "mutally beneficial" for humans and animals! Don't resort to lame attempts at sarcasm when I demonstrate this to be self-serving claptrap. Furthermore, if the pain and suffering of animals is nothing to you don't get angry with a wolf if it kills and eats a child of yours.
You guys have no clue what is it like being that poor where meat is a luxury item, you have never experienced war and scarcity of food... Vegies are spoiled kids with money that they can waste on tons of fruit and vegetables which are way less nutritious (per same amount of weight) than meat is, and then brag about it...
Blah blah blah....
If shit ever happens in your parts of the world,you will see how all of you will change the attitudes so much so, that you will yourself brake the neck of a little sweet furry bunny or chicken....
Firstly, I have not expressed opposition to eating meat per se. Fuck me, if I was starving enough I cannot say I wouldn't tuck into your leg if I found you dead on the roadside. Human sapiens are, after all (and contrary to what self-centered egotists might wish to believe), JUST ANOTHER ANIMAL.
Topic: Being Vegetarian (continued from shout box)