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Re:Paul Graham on the Transition to Meat Substitutes by chrisseaton on Sunday February 24, 2019 @05:38PM (#19241089)
> they probably can't survive outside

You should come and see the sheep roaming around the mountains near me.

They keep the grasslands under control, and they happily mind their own business. I don't think they need genocide.

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Re:Paul Graham on the Transition to Meat Substitutes by tdeck on Sunday February 24, 2019 @05:48PM (#19241152)
Many breeds of sheep need to be sheared as they've been bred to not shed their wool.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/09/0...

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Re:Paul Graham on the Transition to Meat Substitutes by bastawhiz on Sunday February 24, 2019 @05:45PM (#19241132)
Who's going to pay to transport sheep to grassland? Who's going to rehabilitate a pig that's never been outside a cage? What do we do with cows? There's a lot of unanswered questions, and not many mountains waiting for unwanted sheep.
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Re:Paul Graham on the Transition to Meat Substitutes by chrisseaton on Sunday February 24, 2019 @05:47PM (#19241146)
I didn't say we should move any around. The person I was replying to said extinction as in all of them, even those minding their own business elsewhere.
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Re:Paul Graham on the Transition to Meat Substitutes by j605 on Sunday February 24, 2019 @05:49PM (#19241154)
> They keep the grasslands under control, and they happily mind their own business. I don't think they need genocide.

I never asked for them to be killed. Letting them go extinct is different from killing them en masse.

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