On 05/01/14 15:08, Vidcapper wrote:

> The thing that people like Morrissey don't seem to realise, is that if
> everyone turned veggie, *no* animals would be saved. With no economic
> use for them, they're hardly going to be kept as pets - they'd all be
> culled!

That's a valid point where farm animals are concerned.

> They couldn't even be returned to the wild - the instinctive defences of
> their ancestors have been bred out of them, so they'd be defenceless.

Their natural predators, such as wolves, are instinct in a number of
Western countries so they wouldn't need the defences that they did in
the past.