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Natural Order. a friend of mine just showed me what some people came up with to make this world a better place www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/meet-the-peop

a friend of mine just showed me what some people came up with to make this world a better place
www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/meet-the-people-who-want-to-turn-predators-into-vegans.html

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What if prey didn' t have to suffer?
Meet the people who want to turn
predators into vegans
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Submitted: 04/01/2015
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#5 - cptcanada (04/01/2015) [+] (1 reply)
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mfw im a lion in ten years
User avatar #18 - egosumproxi ONLINE (04/01/2015) [+] (21 replies)
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The immediate effect would be more animals eating grass or plants or whatever. After a while it would ultimately result in the former prey animals' populations, with no predators to keep their' numbers in check, would probably reach plague proportions and destroy the ecosystem entirely...

It's like what I think when I hear a vegan say all people should stop eating meat. If humans stopped eating meat, what would we do with the billions of sheep and cows and other forms of livestock that we've bred up to meet our dietary needs? Killing them for no reason would be worse that eating them I'd think, but if we left them alive they's just keep breeding and create a bigger strain on food supplies.
#4 - coronus (04/01/2015) [-]
Yeah, sure. destabilize all the food chains, kill all the predators with indigestible food, and leave the stupid, skittish prey species to overpopulate themselves to death.
User avatar #6 to #4 - odstnsg [OP]ONLINE (04/01/2015) [-]
maybe they will start eating themselfs so that they need to be gone too and thats the plan?
#7 to #6 - coronus (04/01/2015) [-]
I say we just feed them to the predators. Or maybe they scotch says that.

good idea, scothch. killll them aaallll
User avatar #8 to #7 - odstnsg [OP]ONLINE (04/01/2015) [-]
so technically burn down everything
may that be right`?
User avatar #10 to #8 - coronus (04/01/2015) [-]
Alcohol says: burn it all.
User avatar #9 to #8 - coronus (04/01/2015) [-]
Hold on, I have to consult the scotch.
User avatar #94 to #4 - madvulcan (04/01/2015) [-]
That's a bit like what's happening to Western society. Take away the claws of critics by calling their opinions abuse and hate speech, and you now have a new flock of useless people who have never been exposed to any ideologies but their own, seem to only exist to take up resources, and who apparently are so weak and timid that clapping makes them have a nervous breakdown.
#13 - anointedbyfire (04/01/2015) [-]
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User avatar #17 - darksideofthebeast (04/01/2015) [-]
Being a vegan? Cool. Making your dog a vegan? not cool at all.
Making a wild animal vegan? You shoulda stopped about half way through the dog part.
User avatar #22 to #17 - syntheticdoll (04/01/2015) [-]
Their mother should have stopped at the birthing part.
User avatar #27 to #22 - odstnsg [OP]ONLINE (04/01/2015) [-]
or start with the aborting part at some point
User avatar #28 to #27 - syntheticdoll (04/01/2015) [-]
Or just swallow them.
User avatar #30 to #28 - odstnsg [OP]ONLINE (04/01/2015) [-]
thats also a possibility
#50 - Jabberwocky (04/01/2015) [-]
Some animals are obligate carnivores and will actually die if they don't eat meat. But I suppose that's a sacrifice these lunatics are willing to make because "muh humane treatment".   
   
I'm pretty darn liberal, but it's people like this that make saying so unfathomably frustrating.
Some animals are obligate carnivores and will actually die if they don't eat meat. But I suppose that's a sacrifice these lunatics are willing to make because "muh humane treatment".

I'm pretty darn liberal, but it's people like this that make saying so unfathomably frustrating.
User avatar #102 to #50 - ChewyConor (04/02/2015) [-]
They said they want to genetically modify them to be able to eat other things.
User avatar #69 to #50 - nefarian (04/01/2015) [-]
Some? Almost every single carnivore dies without meat nutrition. Humans can only do it because we're omnivores, and even then you have to pay a lot of attention to what you eat.
#105 to #50 - anon (04/02/2015) [-]
It goes even crazier than that if you actually read it.
They want to change the carnivores genetic code to made them vegetarian, then they want to control the reproduction of animals so they dont reproduce out of control. Because reproduction control is more humane than being eaten alive. Its a circle jerk of retardation.
#2 - omegez (04/01/2015) [-]
results
#60 - nudybooty (04/01/2015) [-]
The site had a pole titled "Should humans phase out predators?". I know most said no, but the amount of people who actually said yes concerns me.
User avatar #35 - Garude ONLINE (04/01/2015) [-]
I vote we throw all the people who think this is a good idea into a hungry lion pit.
#16 - crazycommando (04/01/2015) [-]
<Mfw trying to turn wild animals into vegans...

go one go give him some grass.....become his next meal, more oxygen for the rest of us you bumbling fools
User avatar #23 to #16 - syntheticdoll (04/01/2015) [-]
We should support feeding the predators by hand otherwise it's "discrimination" ->problem solved.
User avatar #31 to #23 - odstnsg [OP]ONLINE (04/01/2015) [-]
but only by vegans
User avatar #32 to #31 - syntheticdoll (04/01/2015) [-]
Also SJWs
#1 - logickid (04/01/2015) [-]
ANIMALS EAT ANIMALS
User avatar #11 to #1 - skyrimdovah (04/01/2015) [-]
You used my thing, hooray for minor achievements.
User avatar #3 to #1 - odstnsg [OP]ONLINE (04/01/2015) [-]
and for some reason it is a problem for some people
and i dont get why those tree huggers want to **** the natural balance so much
#54 - superanonymouspers ONLINE (04/01/2015) [-]
this is satire right? Like the onion?

C'mon, someone prove to me that this is fake.
#19 - iforgetwhattosay (04/01/2015) [-]
have they never heard the concept of &quot;don't play god&quot;?
have they never heard the concept of "don't play god"?
User avatar #42 - komandantmirkoo (04/01/2015) [-]
i suggest they each go up to a predatory animal. preferably one that can kill and eat something the size of a human, and talk to it.

but seriously. we need carnivores to control the herbivore population.
How Wolves Change Rivers
here's one of the reasons why.
#34 - soyfriedbryce (04/01/2015) [-]
******* christ, its like these people didn't take middle school biology. Ever heard of a keystone species you ******** ? Grey wolves for example, are a keystone species in the americas. That means that without them, the ecosystem would fall apart. Now I realize this isn't 100% eliminating them, however, the part of them that makes them important IS the predation. If they stop eating meat, then the smaller animals will grow with numbers unchecked. Eventually the grass, berries, and seeds would no longer be able to keep up with the population, and only two things will happen. We'll have to do a little squirrel genocide, or they'll start trying to eat other foods, like MEAT. Jesus...
User avatar #14 - lapsushominum ONLINE (04/01/2015) [-]
To go beyond the intuitive reasons alone as to why this is a horrible idea and put it in terms of refuting their original goal: if their goal is to reduce suffering this will not achieve that goal in the long run. They would spend resources getting the predators to stop, the prey species would overpopulate. Best case scenario the prey species starts to decline before their food is eradicated, but then they suffer as they starve to death. Worst case scenario they cause horrible damage to their ecosystem and then starve to death too. If the prey species goes extinct and support is withdrawn from this program as a result, the predators then also suffer as they starve to death.

Not that I think this would ever seriously be considered, but it truly is a terrible idea.
User avatar #20 to #14 - odstnsg [OP]ONLINE (04/01/2015) [-]
but since its an idea there are people who want others to consider it and thats pretty damn awful
#47 - anon (04/01/2015) [-]
Yeah, you go ahead and "fix" whats been working for centuries before humans even existed you stupid, stupid egocentrics. There's a reason for the way things are, it keeps populations balanced. Why don't you feed the starving children in Africa before you **** with animals?
User avatar #33 - drl (04/01/2015) [-]
maybe dont **** with nature
i mean this system has been going great for billions of years
#96 - TheGreatAnon (04/01/2015) [-]
&gt; philosophers    
You keep using this word in the article and I'm pretty sure you don't know what it means
> philosophers
You keep using this word in the article and I'm pretty sure you don't know what it means
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