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Yeah but what are we gonna do with all these pigs then? Uplift them and invite them into our society?

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7 points

This was definitely one of my concerns when I first went vegan, but thankfully, it’s really not a problem at all, due to basic supply and demand.

Everyone in the world isn’t going to go vegan overnight. The demand for animal products will gradually decline over decades, and farmers won’t waste their time and money by raising more animals than they can sell, so the supply will decline in turn.

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14 points

Eat the last generation and put a couple in zoos, like we did with all species once they are no longer useful…

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2 points

Animal reservoir? Instead of millions of pigs sent to the slaughter, thousands in free range zones where they can have their stem cells harvested without suffering. And “train” the rest to live on their original place.

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4 points

Yeah, not a good idea. There are wild hogs, but our farm pigs are not good for the wild. They go feral and become giant and dangerous and do a lot of damage, and they also breed like crazy. It’s actually a really big issue. These animals are meant for the farm and nothing more.

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4 points

Their original place is farms.

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We could let the pigs run the farm, then document what happens.

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2 points

You could even write a book about that!

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They did already heress the document

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2 points

I had heard of this story many times before, but had never actually read it. Thanks.

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4 points

Someone has been reading Revelation Space.

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3 points

I thought they were talking about Animal Farm

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3 points

They still need the pigs to cultivate the cells to make the sausage.

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0 points

No.

They need one cell, once.

They can than grow that one cell into an infinite number of cells.

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6 points

We can keep them as cute animals :3

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60 points

Slaughter them for one last time and spare their future generations by removing their lineage from existence. Nbd

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That’s straight ignorance. You don’t abandon a curated breed of livestock based on some short term innovation. Humanity’s dependence on these types animals is older than recorded history. You would doom us all if the technology fails and we can not go back to traditional methods.

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3 points

Sorry chief, I’m unable to fathom the logic underlying this comment.

Do you think that the day the first stem cell sausage hits the supermarket shelves pigs will be deleted from this reality?

You’ll still be able to buy sausages made with real flesh in 50 years, just that between now and then alternatives will emerge that are tastier, healthier, and cheaper.

Steam trains still exist but you don’t drive one to work every day because they’re shit.

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10 points

Oh, poor little humans, imagine having to live by *checks notes* eating vegetables.

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8 points

And meat is by far not the only thing we cultivate pigs for.

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2 points

Release them into the wild

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4 points

That’s the fastest way to kill of even more animals and species as a whole. Pigs are really good at adapting and eating.

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2 points

Yeah, it’s not a good idea

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9 points

Nah. We got people in helicopters shooting them by the hundreds and they are still out of control.

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4 points

Imagine how that moment would look on The Simpsons. Imagine Lisa hitting the button to free them all

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