- "For many of the animals we eat, we’d be consigning their species to oblivion if we stopped eating them." - "[In college] I used to blow [veg and vegans'] mi

- "For many of the animals we eat, we’d be consigning their species to oblivion if we stopped eating them." - "[In college] I used to blow [veg and vegans'] minds with this argument—“Oh, so you say you love cows, but you also want to consign their species to oblivion?”" First, with that level of discourse, that is one college to avoid. But why does he keep suggesting that a species would disappear just because we stopped farming it? By his own analogy, humans would continue populating the earth if aliens chose that option. Even in the same paragraph he argues it would just mean fewer animals but then proceeds to presume their extinction. What's wrong with only 1 billion chickens instead of 25? By his future-lives-carry-moral-weight logic we should still be vegetarian, breeding but not eating them, because 250 billion is even better. Just dumb.