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Re:Startup claims to have created first test tube meatball by cbd1984 on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @11:22AM (#11027323)
The comic you just thought of: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3105

The actual vegan response: http://ethicalvegan.net/read/will-animals-go-extinct-if-the-...

It comes down to "Stop thinking about extinctions when the factory ranching system is a bunch of concentration camps."; that is, they never deny that their policies would lead to extinctions, they just insist that ending the cruelty is a more important way to frame the debate.

Subsidiary question: Is it really extinction if the gene line is preserved, but never allowed to ramify into an actual organism?

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Re:Startup claims to have created first test tube meatball by xbmcuser on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @12:11PM (#11027697)
Farming takes up a huge amount of land. If all that land is allowed to go wild thousands of species not just domesticated ones will have a chance to come back if they are already not extinct. So decrease of domesticated animals does not automatically mean it will be bad for the animal kingdom or earth as whole.
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