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What animal could you delete from existence with a mostly positive outcome for the planet? (aussie.zone)

submitted 10 months ago by bestusername@aussie.zone to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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And don't say humans, too obvious, too cynical.

I'd delete mosquitos.

The only negative effect I can think of would be fish won't have mosquito larvae to eat and their diet would have to shift.

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[–] Maldreamer@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

But why cows?

[–] Venus@hexbear.net 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's an understandable answer that kind of misses the point. Cows are an incredible strain on the environment because of how fucking many of them humans breed in order to abuse and murder. But deleting cows would just prompt people to breed and abuse a different animal so it wouldn't help that much

[–] isame@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What do you think we'd use? Just out of curiosity. Horse? Deer? We have the infrastructure and such for horses. I don't know why we haven't domesticated deer for meat production but I'd imagine they're next. Horses have much less utility in the modern world so I can definitely see them being the go-to.

[–] Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago

More farming of pigs and goats probably.

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Bison, most likely.

[–] Venus@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I honestly think they'd just reinvent the cow.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 1 points 9 months ago

I don't kniw why but for some reason the phrase reinvent the cow is so funny to me.

[–] Hello_there@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Methane and total acreage needed per cow

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

But why male cows?