Deforestation is largely caused by animal agriculture, if we stop that then there’s a lot more land available for the wildlife reducing the extinction risk greatly, as Denmark has recently committed to converting 15% of the farm land to forests.

There would be a lot less bovines in the world as they’re not longer being artificially inseminated, they would move to sanctuaries where they can live fulfilling lives without the threat of an early death.

given how humanity seems to want to wipe out animals it can’t farm, how many cows would exist if they were not consumed for various products?

Fine I’ll take the bait. This is a ridiculously bold claim which so carelessly oversimplifies…well everything that I need to ask, where did you hear this??

I guess it would probably be just a fraction compared to the current number of cows but I personally think it’s still a much better world with few animals living in the wild rather than masses in captivity.

If some aliens came to us and and offered us to massively increase the human population by factor 10 or 100 but in return they’d hold us in cages, control our reproduction, decide on how old you’ll get, use our bodies as ressources for food and clothes etc.

I guess very few humans would see such a development as a success for our species despite the tremendous growth of individuals.

Quality > quantity