I totally get where you're coming from (in fact I basically believed exactly what you're saying here it's uncanny). For milk, I'd recommend this video just to see what really happen to get a glass of milk (CW: it might be upsetting/has explicit scenes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcN7SGGoCNI). Rather than milk merely being a byproduct, the industry functions separately and rampantly.
With regards to chickens, and cows for that matter, more and more people becoming vegan will necessarily reduce how many chickens are bred; it won't happen overnight so the situation you mention about exponential growth rate of chickens wouldn't really occur.
For the fully ethical solution I think not eating animal products/using them is the baseline, seeing as those contribute to worlds of suffering to animals. I don't think it would fully be phased out unless people fully reject using the products: people eating less meat etc. is obviously preferable than doing nothing at all, but unless people reject the products, there will still be a demand for them and thus will be produced at scale + continue the suffering. In terms of a resource that just made me think about it more, I liked this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3u7hXpOm58& (no explicit scenes!).
Interesting. I guess I will have to inform myself more on the consequences each product brings with it and wether that is worth it. I dounbt I would call myself a vegan after that, but it would probably limit my consumption more. I fully agree with limiting unneccessary suffering as much as possible.
That's awesome to hear, good luck with your journey! For what it's worth, I said "I could never become vegan" probably hundreds of times, yet here I am :).
I totally get where you're coming from (in fact I basically believed exactly what you're saying here it's uncanny). For milk, I'd recommend this video just to see what really happen to get a glass of milk (CW: it might be upsetting/has explicit scenes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcN7SGGoCNI). Rather than milk merely being a byproduct, the industry functions separately and rampantly.
With regards to chickens, and cows for that matter, more and more people becoming vegan will necessarily reduce how many chickens are bred; it won't happen overnight so the situation you mention about exponential growth rate of chickens wouldn't really occur.
For the fully ethical solution I think not eating animal products/using them is the baseline, seeing as those contribute to worlds of suffering to animals. I don't think it would fully be phased out unless people fully reject using the products: people eating less meat etc. is obviously preferable than doing nothing at all, but unless people reject the products, there will still be a demand for them and thus will be produced at scale + continue the suffering. In terms of a resource that just made me think about it more, I liked this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3u7hXpOm58& (no explicit scenes!).
Interesting. I guess I will have to inform myself more on the consequences each product brings with it and wether that is worth it. I dounbt I would call myself a vegan after that, but it would probably limit my consumption more. I fully agree with limiting unneccessary suffering as much as possible.
That's awesome to hear, good luck with your journey! For what it's worth, I said "I could never become vegan" probably hundreds of times, yet here I am :).