#2 - I never said it was a necessity. I said it has PURPOSE. Which it does. It has value. Whether the value offsets the costs is a separate question. But that's

#2 - I never said it was a necessity. I said it has PURPOSE. Which it does. It has value. Whether the value offsets the costs is a separate question. But that's why people are upset about an entirely purpose-less waste of resources #3 - That's an absolute statement. On a relative scale, there are farmers that raise and slaughter their animals more humanely than dying horrifically in a forest fire. I won't pretend a mass market slaughterhouse is more humane, but I just mean it is a sliding scale #4 - The death of 1 cow of which there is almost 1 billion worthwhile is not equivalent to the death of 1 koala, of which there are less than 50,000. All the cows we kill around the world do not endanger the cow species. That is not the case with koalas who may never recover from this fire.