There’s a bit of wiggle room, but not enough to make much difference. If commercial farming continues, we’re all screwed, even the compliant ones.
I’m inclined to agree.
They don’t have a Prime Directive, or at least, it doesn’t involve non-interference.
Anything we like, if it takes less than a year.
We can, but animal welfare is going to have to drastically improve.
They didn’t say. Do you reckon we should risk it?
Their motives are unfathomable.
Their message appeared primarily focused on exploitation of living animals, so it seems like this should be OK, but they refuse to elaborate, so it’s a gamble.
Seems we can do this, if we treat them pretty much like family.
We can do anything inside the year - so maybe one possibility for the continuation of the human race is to drastically prune it, in order to be able to control and monitor the remainder.
This isn’t an allegory for global warming, is it?
Not intentionally. It’s just a scenario that popped into my head.
Much better than aliens with a book titled ‘To Serve Man’…
A few things come to mind. What about carnivorous animals such as lions and tigers and bears? Are they wizard enough to communicate with them?
If we shoot our secret weapon at them (missiles filled with gaseous cows) will they shoot them down?
If we breed animals without brains (politicians?) can we eat them?
If we breed Ameglian Major Cows that expressly want to be eaten is that OK (from the Hitchhiker’s guide to the Galaxy)?
We kill and eat the aliens. Simple solution to a complex problem.
What wine goes with Martians?
You’re planning on making bacon from a cow :dubious:
Well if they’re just going to sit on their hands … umm…tentacles … for twelve months and then choose whether to hit the disintegrate button, then I agree.
OTOH, if they start off bombing the largest abbatoirs at around the eleven month mark, I would think the number of abbatoir workers showing up for their shift at month 12 would be pretty low.
I’m pretty sure the human race’s first response would be to spend that twelve months putting everything we could into military hardware so we could (attempt to) fight back though.
I was scanning through the messages waiting to see if someone had replied with “eat them.” You have preserved my faith in humanity, sir. Thank you.
We would all die. even if all the world saw and believed the aliens, there would not be total compliance, too many people would say “I’ll be damned if I cant get my meat”, cold dead hands and all of that. Hell, if the stipulation was the entire human race was wiped out if people ate meat period, no personal allotment, etc, I suppose a dozen or so people even in this thread would share personal responsibility for wiping out humanity, probably within a few hours of the ultimatum.
Oh my! They haven’t addressed that, only specified that humans need to stop the exploitation - maybe it’s because they feel we have a choice in the matter, but who knows?
Refuse to elaborate? Threatening to eliminate the entire human race? These “aliens” are sounding more and more like my ex. We are doomed.
I think that in practical terms it would be very easy to do.
That said, all those millions of animals alive in the world today purely because we are going to eat them would die almost overnight.
If we didn’t actually slaughter them we’d probably let them starve to death because we’d be using all our resources to grow crops.
But my own thoughts are if I had to give up bacon, roast beef, lamb and steaks then the hell with it.
Attack them immediately, go for the throat.
We could use animal shields (As opposed to human shields).
Stuff our pockets with dormice or whatever and then launch the assault.
Let them know what you’ve done beforehand and and then they can sweat out the consequences of attacking you .
The other tactic could be use hostage tactics.
Touch me and the fluffy bunny gets it !
Here I’ve got pictures of her mum and dad and her thirtysix off spring.
Don’t push me copper,er weird alien being I mean,I’m gonna do it !
That’s the thing. In that year, regardless of the final choice, there would be a horrible holocaust of animal destruction as people became convinced that we were all doomed and decided to take all the fluffy bunnies with them.
So would I. I get sad when I think about meat 
Wouldn’t it also be environmentally unfrendly ?
Veggies fart alot more then omnivores so this would definitely have a massive effect if all humans went veggie.