Comment Kill the goose that lays the golden egg (Score 1) 253
I love lichens, but I don't think they thought this one through all the way. If dairy proteins can be produced by lichens, then what need remains to continue the bovine species?
Domestication of milk producing bovines is how we choose to worship these animals. They manage the forest and in return we get milk out of the deal, it's a symbolic relationship. However, some idiot came along and thought it would be a good idea to slaughter them for their meat instead. Vegetarianism not veganism, that is to say consume the by-products produced by the animal, not the animal itself. This isn't rocket science; if you like to eat meat proteins, ideally they should come from lowered ordered non-sentient life forms, for example, chicken eggs.