Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in living memory

Re:Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in... by OscarCunningham on Thursday May 21, 2020 @03:09AM (#23255627)

Continue eating them as usual but stop breeding new ones. Most of them only live a few months, they'll all be gone within two years.

The species won't go extinct either, we can still keep some around in their natural habitats and zoos, which are both much nicer conditions than most farms. Preferably we won't keep around the breeds that were created for farming, they just aren't healthy animals.

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Re:Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in... by ohyeshedid on Thursday May 21, 2020 @03:29AM (#23255747)

That appears to be a practical approach.

The next quandaries are what do farm owners, farm workers, slaughterhouses, tanners, textiles, feed companies, agriculture focused veterinarian services and products, etc, do now that they're no longer needed?

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Re:Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in... by seanwilson on Thursday May 21, 2020 @11:25AM (#23259516)

What do you do with all the coal miners? What happened to all the telegraph operators and town criers?

I'm sure we'd work something out in terms of retraining and government support for new businesses.

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