[j605]

They were all modified through the generations to make them a commodity. If they have no purpose, them going extinct is not a bad thing. Most of them are optimized for meat or other purposes and they probably can't survive outside. It would be humane to let them go extinct after we transition. FWIW we already wiped them off the Earth, you don't find a lot of wild cows or chickens other than the ones we have modified.

[chrisseaton]

> they probably can't survive outside

You should come and see the sheep roaming around the mountains near me.

They keep the grasslands under control, and they happily mind their own business. I don't think they need genocide.

[tdeck]

Many breeds of sheep need to be sheared as they've been bred to not shed their wool.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/09/0...

[bastawhiz]

Who's going to pay to transport sheep to grassland? Who's going to rehabilitate a pig that's never been outside a cage? What do we do with cows? There's a lot of unanswered questions, and not many mountains waiting for unwanted sheep.

[chrisseaton]

I didn't say we should move any around. The person I was replying to said extinction as in all of them, even those minding their own business elsewhere.

[j605]

> They keep the grasslands under control, and they happily mind their own business. I don't think they need genocide.

I never asked for them to be killed. Letting them go extinct is different from killing them en masse.