It should be considered morally wrong to kill sentient animals for their meat

I will first state my information and use the next round to refute my opponents information.I regret to inform you that you have stumbled into a debate with an agriculturists. I have grown up around agriculture throughout my entire life. I have encountered cattle first hand multiple times.To begin, I will state what will happen to cattle if released into the wild (If you are implying that agriculturists in the area give up the land that has been in their families for tens of generations, or the alternative, mass transporting them to another country with rural land that has not been claimed. Or the alternative, to keep them and raise them for no gain. (I will get to that later.)Let's simply say that all agriculturists gave up their pastures (for cattle) and the meadows (for growing hay and feeding the cattle). Let's just forget the millions of dollars invested in the land and the hundreds of thousands of hours all of the family has invested in putting up fences, moving cattle, branding. They also just so happen to give away all their cattle in which a single calf, which happens to be selling point for many agriculturists in the area is around $1.5 per lb. An average calf weighs around 400-600 lb., depending on the age of the calf. Also, agriculturists in the area have around 10,000 head of cattle. If you do the math the total amount of livestock that will simply be sent out into the unknown is $4,000,000-$6,000,000 dollars not counting the full grown cattle that weigh around up to 1,500 lbs. Which totals up to a whopping $15,000,000 dollars. Now since you so intent on comparing individuals to animal I will compare your salary to roughly which on average for most Americans is $2,820,300 in an entire lifetime! Doesn't compare to the quantities of livestock you suggest to just give away! We are just scratching the tip of the iceberg though. Let's examine this silly little scenario, we'll start with if all the agriculturists just got up and gave up all the land they owned. These animals are now wild. American people want meat. People living in rural areas would no doubt grab their firearms and possibly fire multiple times on the cow (depending on their aim) which will undoubtedly cause much more pain than any 'lethal injection' which would absolutely never happen especially while an animal is sleeping to be more humane. The alternative to the situation is wild animals in the area: snakes, coyotes and other carnivorous animals tear the cows and bulls limb from limb and eating them alive. Causing PAIN AND SUFFERING, in fact much more pain and suffering than any low caliber round to the head (this is how they kill the livestock in order to butcher them) ever could. Now we'll examine if an animal were shipped off to a completely remote area. Not including the price to the organization transporting them by boat, train or other means of transportation. No, I'm not up for seeing the new hit blockbuster Cows on planes. lets randomly select two continents and say that's where they were exported. No help from humans whatsoever. Okay, so I placed all seven continents into a randomizer and the results were Africa and Australia. Let's begin with Australia. Before I begin this silly little part of our journey I'd like to name a few fun facts about the continent Australia! Some spiders are larger enough to shrug off a bullet! The barrier reef contains more digested surfer remains than any other continent's or country's coast. There are 619 venomous deadly 'sentient' animals to one Australian. If, all the livestock were placed in a rural area they would no doubt die within a month, tops. Never being exposed to the wild the livestock would be mortared with neurotoxins, toxins, poisons, venoms, etc. That's all I have to state on this topic. They would die.Now Africa, there are multiple regions for these animals to be shipped to but let's narrow down even more into the safari. Where humans, as well as deadly animals, insects and arachnids would no without hesitation feast on such an animal. And what do we have now, we have cows on the endangered species list. So we capture them and place them in a zoo so the agriculturists who just shipped them off a month or two ago, go visit them in a zoo, where they are in a much more confined spaces reproducing so they are populous again and can be released back into their natural habitat? What natural habitat? I always thought a cow's natural habitat was inside a fence. Since we can't do that let's ship back out to some uninhabited country again to die out. So we can repeat the process. Yes? Silly idea in the first place. This equation is probable with all domesticated livestock. All you have to do is plug in a different animal.Now let's go into what would happen if we just continued to hand out more money to feed cattle and move them for no reason to different pastures so they don't overgraze and kill themselves by starving. The cattle would become so populous after all the effort to keep them alive with absolutely no gain, that they would literally be eating more pasture than we have. They would become mad with starvation, tear down their barriers and eventually overgraze those areas and again become over populous and kill themselves off again. What can we do though, we can't kill them for their own good. I believe that if you could ask a livestock animal if it would rather starve to death, get shot multiple times, get torn in half by predators or actually die peacefully, that would be it's choice. Wouldn't it be yours? Now I will begin my statements as to why the human body needs the valuable protein found in meat. We get from livestock everyday. Behind water, protein is the most commonly found substance in your body. When you consume food it is broken down and converted into amino acids. There are 20 different amino acids and they all have the purpose of keeping your muscles strong. So eating meat is encouraged unless you like sitting down at the table with a big plate of celery and ensure on the side. Most bodily functions are dependant on protein that is consumed. Without protein, you will find yourself feeling ill and experiencing an extreme case of muscle atrophy. Muscle Atrophy is defined as the decrease of muscle in the body. If you are not aware, muscle is quite important to how you move and do everyday tasks. It is evident that protein is needed in the body. Here is a graph of My plate, which recommends meat in your daily diet. It is highly recommended by nutrition experts and doctors to follow this graph.http://ts1.mm.bing.net...and an even more realistic form. http://ts3.mm.bing.net...In conclusion,No agriculturist would give up the land they have invested so much money and time in. They definitely would not give up their cattle to a completely foreign environment. In the event that this did happen they would die very quickly. I also went over the obvious problem of overpopulation of livestock. I slightly touched on how protein is needed and how it is highly recommended among doctors and nutrition experts to eat protein in your diet. And to reiterate I believe that if you could ask a livestock animal if it would rather starve to death, get shot multiple times, get torn in half by predators or actually die peacefully, that would be it's choice. Wouldn't it be yours?Thanks to all, and to all a big juicy steak! 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