Do you agree with this conservation theory?

Question

The best way to preserve a species is to eat it.

Look at cows, chickens, and pigs.

Answer 1

good

Answer 2

If thats the case , you can thank me for saving men .

Answer 3

The best way to preserve species is to give individuals property rights to the animal, like your chickens, cows, pigs, dogs and cats are private property.

Answer 4

We probably wouldn't enjoy eating many of the endangered species.

Answer 5

i don't think so how do you preserve it if it's in your belly o.o...?

Answer 6

Not so sure about this.  It's really less that we eat them and more that we breed them, right?  Personally, I don't eat any of these.

Answer 7

I think what this really is saying, the best way to preserve a species is to comerically breed it, because we eat it, it is comercially breeded, so yes i do agree.  If we were to enjoy eating pandas as much as we love a beef burger in our macdonalds intensive farming, artifical insemination etc. would prevent it from becoming extinct.

Answer 8

Those aren't wild animals.  Turkeys, for example, have been genetically selected to the point that they are so huge they cannot even mate. They must be artificially inseminated.  They look very different than wild turkeys.

Answer 9

Most species that have been wiped out and that are endangered have been hunted to extinction for food. The Dodo Bird was hunted for food. Cow, chickens and pigs are domesticated animals and are raised for food. The Humpback Whale and Passenger Pigeon are not.

Answer 10

No,  you preserve a species by managing it.  Look at deer populations in Pennsylvania.  In the 1930's there were almost no white tail deer left in PA.  Through a well planned management program we now have, according to some experts, more white tail deer than there where in the colonial era.

      A principle part of that management plan has always been hunting.  Unfortunately hunting has dropped off in popularity, coupled with the Urban sprawl in some parts of the State we now have serious deer population problem.  The deer have learned to move into residential areas for easy meals and safe living conditions, they cannot be hunted in these areas, but they can be run into with a car.

      The population is now very large, it's getting diseased and top shelf predators are being imported to keep the population down.  We'd be much better off with more hunters.  It doesn't take a Mountain Lion long to figure out were the real "Easy Meal" is when it's hunting on the edge of a subdivision.

Answer 11

look at dogs and cats

Answer 12

who has been eating the cockroaches?? and the rats?? come on... own up...who was it??

Answer 13

Well my answer is yes and no.  

Obviously for many, many WILD animal species there are so very few of them, and they breed so poorly, or so very slowly, they could not withstand having members of their population eaten.  

Elephants only have calves (babies) after a two YEAR gestation period....they simply breed too slowly.

Panda Bears simply to not seem to be very interested in breeding.  They are having a lot of success with artificially insiminating the females, but obviously if the males are not interested in natural mating practices it would be terribly, terribly difficult to get a viable, commercial breeding population going.

Besides, can you immagine the outcry if people  wanted to eat cute critters, like the panda, tiger, dolphin. koala, or a swan?  I think it would be easier to get the earth to stop spinning, that to get most people to be accepting of such ideas (except in China, where they have a long standing tradition of eating all critters cute, or not).

So for the ENDANGERED wild animals, I'm going to say, no it wouldn't work (deer, elk, moose, ect are not endangered).

Besides wild animals are wild for a reason...they do NOT adapt to captivity and become domestic.  

Think about how very, very few domestic animals there are, vs. wild animals.  We have captive (wild) animals, but captivity does NOT make them domestic.

We have horses (including mules and donkeys), cattle, sheep, pigs, goats, reindeer (aka Caribou if they are wild), llama, alpaca, camels, yaks,  water buffalo, and one other Asian cattle breed I cannot remember how to spell their name.

Of course we have other domestics, like dogs, cats, ferrets, hamsters, honey bees, earth worms, ect.

All breed well in captivity, all can be bred to be easier to handle by humans.  A zebra would breed well enough in captivity, yet almost always grow up to be vicious and ill tempered (unlike domestic horses).

A koala bear can be raised in captivity and be quiet friendly with humans, yet breeds very poorly in captivity.  In other words, wild animals are wild for a reason, and have not become domestic animals for a reason.

Back to the domestic animals however.  There are many, many hertiage breeds of farm animals that are in serrious danger of becoming extinct.  

I completely avocate the eating of these rare/heritage breeds of farm animals!  If people re-discover these wonderful animals and breeders can build a steady market for them, they will breed more of them, and thereby save them.

Check out this link and see just how many livestock breeds are endangered:

http://www.albc-usa.org/

As a small farmer who raises both meat goats and rabbits, I am in complete agreeement that these rare DOMESTIC breeds need to have a sale outlet as the meat animals they are, not just some rare/fancy/novel animal for a few people to own.

Have have some Myotonic goats (AKA Tennessee Fainting Goat) in my herd.  Not to sell to people as some weird pet that faints when you yell or flap your arms, but rather to improve the amount of muscling, and meat yeild on the meat goats I'm breeding.  I have a vested interest in keeping a healthy, viable, pure Myotonic breeding group on my farm...because my customers are eating them, and it improves the carcass.

I'm quiet sure I'm going to get more than a few thumbs down, but this is the reality of farming.  Without people like me, some breeds of DOMESTIC livestock would become extinct.  By the way, our farm is very environmentally friendly, and has habitat which two of my local endangered species are thriving (wild animals).

Supporting small farmers, and small craft opertations usually does a lot to improve the environment.  A craft person who makes musical intruments out of a rare local wood is going to have a vested interest in seeing that more of those trees are planted so they do not go out of business.  A small farmer cares deeply about their land.  This almost always means habitat is provided for the local wildlife since it's usually very farm friendly.  

~Garnet

Homesteading/Farming over 20 years

Those are the top of the "big" animals

Answer 14

see jaise peene wale ko peene ka bahana chahiye  in the same way the non veg eaters find some thing or the other reasons or excuses to eat it.and fhence i totally  disagree with this conversation and i dont believe how  amn can eat a corpse ( dead animal)