Re: Hypocrite of the week? Hayden Panettiere wants to save dolphins from hungry Japanese, doesn't care about cows or chickens

Victor Velazquez <k-canute@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Anim8rFSK wrote:
> > Mark Nobles <cmn-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> M.L. <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>
> >>>>>> But we grow the cows. If we stopped eating them, we would stop
> >>>>>> breeding them, and soon there wouldn't be any. (We wouldn't leave
> >>>>>> them eating our precious pastures.)*
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Whales are wild animals, and we may be wiping them out.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> *I suspect this also applies to horses. If we gave up
> >>>>>> horseracing, horses might become extinct.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Horses have been making their way on earth long before man
> >>>>> arrived.
> >>>>
> >>>> But horses need a place to live. They would be competing with us
> >>>> now. I
> >>>> doubt we would let them.
> >>>
> >>> Wild horses already live in places humans don't live.
> >>>
> >> Most of those are descendants of domesticated horses. And there are a
> >> lot more horses in the world now than there were when they were
> >> hunted. I haven't counted, but I'd put money on there being more
> >> cattle in North America now than there were bison when they owned
> >> the plains.
> >
> > Oh, come on, there were billions and billions of buffalo, one heard
> > covered 3 whole states!
> >
> > (rolls eyes)
> 
> Well there were until those cold and hungry Indians came along and drove
'em 
> all off a cliff. 
> 
> 
At their peak, there were estimated 60­100 million bison in the
mid-19th century.[2] Not billions and billions.

It is estimated that there are 1.3 billion cattle in the world today.[1]
Roughly 100 million in the United States.[2] They are raised in every
state.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Bison