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Re:Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting soluti... by chongli on Monday April 24, 2017 @10:07PM (#14190190)
Dead bodies, unless mummified or otherwise desiccated into jerky, are teeming with bacterial life.

There's simply no way to survive without destroying other life. Even plants kill other living things in self defense (and many plants prey on animals).

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Re:Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting soluti... by mirimir on Monday April 24, 2017 @11:16PM (#14190479)
Yeah, pretty much. Especially if you're an animal.

Eventually, maybe we'll become effectively plants, creating our food from sunlight, CO2 and minerals. But what about our microbiota?

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