If people dont eat animals with animals overpopulate...?

Question

im vegan...

Answer 1

certain animals yes they would.. its a circle of life

Answer 2

nah.

i think some people eat enough meat for the vegans and vegetarians. theres also those who game hunt and kill with no intention of actually eating it.

there's also cars, loss of habitat (deforestation) and other animals around so i dont think we have to worry about over population.

Answer 3

Domesticated farm animals? No. Most likely they will be exterminated as many were during the SARS crisis or the hoof and mouth disease crisis or the mad cow crisis etc. If no one eats them, they have no value. If no one wears leather, they have no value. If no one uses gelatin, they have no value. etc. he land they currently occupied will need to be converted as soon as possible to crop farming. Maybe some will be kept as a source of organic fertiliser but for most, I believe it will the the furnaces or the gas chamber.

Releasing them into the wild will cause greater damage to the existing ecosystem. There will be extreme pressure of wildlife resources due to the sudden increase in herbivores. Predatory animals will enjoy a population boom with the sudden increase in prey animals. But their traditional prey will also. In the end you will have an ecological imbalance that will be disastrous for all concerned.

Answer 4

some animals are soley bred to be eaten, i'm not sure that animals will take over the world any time soon.

Answer 5

animals deserve to be eaten, if we can catch them, we can eat them

Answer 6

Most animals we eat have short lifespans and such, so if we stop eating animals, we will have more milk and suck, and sadly but truly, the animals will soon die. Also, we would sell the animals for money to other countries, and they use it for milk. So they might be alot, but all farms can sell the milk and others can buy cow for their farms.

Answer 7

no because we raise most of what we eat. But in the wilds the animal population takes care of it self(balance of nature).

Answer 8

Where do you think the animals you eat come from?  They are bred by humans on factory farms.  They are bred artificially (mating is too dangerous.  It might damage the "merchandise").  If people stopped eating them, they would stop creating animals to be eaten.

If people were to naturally hunt and eat wild game like bison and deer and elk and such, then that would probably keep those populations down.  But humans mess so much with the food web as is.  We tend to kill all of the other natural predators of our food.

But the short answer to your question is "no."  You really should do some reading.

Answer 9

Not if we stopped killing all the predators.

No sane person wants the entire human population to be vegetarian.

I want all factory farming to end and all slaughterhouses to be of no use.

However, I would rather have a deer killed by a bullet and used by a hunter

than that same animal or another of the same population being torn apart by predators that may or may not cause a threat to people in that region.

Answer 10

Not at all because then there would be no need for farmers to breed so many.

Answer 11

i think they would, and deep down, most animals know this, and appreciate being eaten

Answer 12

No.  Diesease or something of the like would ravage through the animal populations and wipe them out.  It's us as humans who have mass grown animals who weren't meant to be.  We threw the natural balance out of whack.

Answer 13

nope

animals wouldn't need to be overbreed because we wouldn't be eating them... and they would die due to natural causes and stuff.... so yeah

your theory just failed

and to the person who said "deep down, they like being eaten" ... wow... just wow....

Answer 14

No animals in captivity dont breed themselves. If p[eople stopped eating them they would stop breeding them.

Some animals such as turkeys cant breed naturally at all because they have had their body's altered so much. Thats also why domestic turkeys cant fly and wild ones can. They have to artificially take the s***n out of turkeys and put it into the females, Perhaps that's how the turkey baster was invented? lol

Answer 15

Quite the opposite. The animals that people eat, with minor exceptions, have been domesticated and carefully bred for millennia and are quite distinct from their nearest wild relatives. If no one ate them, no one would raise them and there is no way they could survive in the wild.

Answer 16

It is unrealistic to expect that everyone will stop eating animals overnight. As the demand for meat decreases, fewer animals will be raised for food. Farmers will stop breeding so many animals and will turn to other types of agriculture. When there are fewer of these animals, they will be able to live more natural lives.

Answer 17

NO OF COURSE NOT. people in poor countries are starving to death. the animals won't overpopulate, especially in america...