What Happens to all the Animals if Everyone Goes Vegan?

Fee O'Shea
4 min readMay 22, 2023

It does seem strange that many people worry about what happens to the animals if everyone goes vegan — time to answer this.

Surprisingly enough, this particular question comes up quite a lot. People seem to think that if they go vegan, everyone will go vegan, and that will inevitably mean that cows, pigs, sheep and chickens will be let loose to roam around willy-nilly.

Okay, time to get real.

Even though more and more people are turning to veganism every day, it is obvious that most people have a long way to go before even thinking about eating plants rather than animals. Even those who do take on a reduced meat intake are still buying into the animal agricultural industry. This means the likelihood of millions of farmed animals roaming the world is, quite honestly, a bizarre notion.

The first thing to understand is that farmed animals are bred into existence specifically for us to eat — for no other reason. In most cases, humans control the breeding, especially in factories and large dairy farms. It is done by artificial insemination, an abusive and cruel practice.

Let’s look at an example.

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Fee O'Shea

Gold card carrying vegan NZ author. Passionate about all critters (including humans). Can be seen advocating for the animals or speaking at events.