• Question: Do you think people will suffer if all the animals dies?

    Asked by erikajas to Dean, Jess, Luisa on 25 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Dean Whittaker

      Dean Whittaker answered on 24 Jun 2010:

      Yes. Especially if bees die. These polinate plants and so all our food comes from the fact that there are bees around! There’s currently a world wide problem with bees dying for no apparent reason and it’s a big area of research. The environment is very complicated, other animals dying out will cause other maybe unknown effects

    • Photo: Luisa Ostertag

      Luisa Ostertag answered on 25 Jun 2010:

      Yes, defintely. We need animals for food (not only meat, also milk AND plant-derived foods – if all insects are gone no-one will pollinate the blossoms of trees and flowers – no fruits, no honey!!!), we need them to get leather and wool etc. And we also need them as ‘friends’ (e.g. dogs).
      Actually a lot of plants would die out because of the missing pollination!
      So mankind will suffer HUGELY when all animals will be gone!

    • Photo: Jessica Housden

      Jessica Housden answered on 25 Jun 2010:

      yes – they are an important part of the food chain. Many plants would not be able to pollenate, and so would die if it weren’t for animals. However, with farming techniques we could probably compensate for that and still feed ourselves; although our diets would be very limited.

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