Ban meat, dairy, and eggs worldwide.

"Fact: Domesticated livestock is specifically bred for human consumption. The associated by-products (dairy and eggs) come from said livestock. It only exists and thrives thanks to artificial selection. Artificial selection is the reason why these species and their by-products exist, and without continual human intervention, it would cease to exist whether its consumption by humans is legal or not. Agreed?" Con Pro: I disagree on grounds of self domestication and living organisms being tough in general. "The hypothesis that anatomically modern homo sapiens could have undergone changes akin to those observed in domesticated animals has been contemplated in the biological sciences for at least 150 years. " [23]. As you can see the concept of self domestication is recognized in peer review journals as seen in link [23]. "But it appears that some corners of the animal kingdom are becoming kinder, gentler places. Certain creatures may be domesticating themselves." [24]. "Wild rabbits and domestic rabbits have more or less the same genes. " [25]. "And here"s a comfort to children who have owned tame rabbits that have escaped. "Tame rabbits released into the wild will adapt rather quickly genetically." "The gene variants that are advantageous in the wild that have been under pressure in captivity will increase in frequency thanks to natural selection," Rubin says." [25]. "Biologist Raymond Coppinger, who has spent over 45 years working with and studying dogs, says that this story is nothing more than a romantic fairy tale. "I call it a "just so" story. Nobody who has ever trained a wolf had any success if they started after 19 days," says Coppinger, a professor of biology and animal behavior at Hampshire College in Massachusetts." [26]. "Animals with shorter flight distances will linger, and feed, when humans are close by; this behavioral trait would have been passed on to successive generations, and amplified, creating animals that are increasingly more comfortable around humans. "My argument is that what domesticated " or tame " means is to be able to eat in the presence of human beings. That is the thing that wild wolves can"t do."" [26]. The evidence is clear, humans did not domesticate wild animals instead, wild animals domesticated them selves. When set free into the wild, if the animal lives long enough it will change back into its wild self. As for life being tough that is seen by the wide variety of biomes life has persisted on. From the polar bears living on polar ice caps to the scorpion living in the desert. Creatures live in the depths of the oceans and in the sky. Life is tough. If all the factory farmed livestock was given a transition pasture to experience sunlight, fresh air, and rainfall they would adapt. Finally, after a transition time if they were released into the wild a portion of them would survive. I contend the genes for adaption into the wild exist for factory farmed animals and enough would survive that the species would persist. Even so, every year 10,000 species go extinct. [27]. Part of this is caused by humans destructive methods of obtaining animal products. Ban meat, eggs, and dairy worldwide. Vote Pro. Links 23. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov... 24. http://www.wired.com... 25. http://sciencenordic.com... 26. http://www.pbs.org... 27. http://wwf.panda.org...