Well, I don't know. Thing is, with a large population we need some way to provide large amounts of food so that folks don't bicker too much over resources and others don't starve. So industrial agriculture (which leads to industrial slaughter for both plant and animal life) is probably more likely. Maybe inevitable is too sure a word, but it seems more likely as social animals with large populations.
Still, solving the population problem will certainly make this issue a lot easier, especially since resource wars do seem inevitable.
Good point. There's no way to feed anywhere near our present population an omnivorous diet with wild stocks, but, morality aside, the most efficient and least expensive way to feed six billion would be to adopt a primarily vegetarian diet.
Meat is rarely an economically efficient food, as it takes ten or fifteen Kilos of grain, fish meal, &c to produce a kilo of commercial meat.
Better to treat the meat as a luxury item and just consume the grain.
Grains and beans are concentrated, easily transported and need no refrigeration or special preservation, plus, a given population could be fed on much less acrerage if half the grain didn't go to meat production.