Breeding Controls

2016:

Existing animals should have their lives restored, but certainly we can’t allow the billions alive today to breed indiscriminately, since we need to have their numbers (whole populations of them in fact) drastically reduced, and as quickly as possible. If we keep large numbers of animals alive and then let them breed without fertility control it would be chaos. As the number of ‘useful animals’ increases the more their dollar-earning potential will tempt the unscrupulous human back to using them again, at a later date. Without fertility control, the animal-liberation-solution is untenable. Even as it is, the cost of caring for the present-day’s animals could be an intolerable burden on the public purse. But retiring the animals still alive today is probably a relatively minor problem in the greater scheme of things, since people do love being around animals. Any government could find potential animal-refuge workers, ready and willing (and probably voluntarily or for low wages) to work at animal retirement centres. The whereabouts of these sanctuaries could be on land no longer used for farming.

The details, however, concerning reproduction, must include the possibility of denying the animals reproduction rights or in some way controlling birth rates.

Free them we must. Our energy can’t be better used than in the work of dis-enslaving these presently incarcerated animals.