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Re:Scientists discover spider species that feeds its young milk by EGreg on Saturday December 01, 2018 @10:49AM (#18577225)
What’s this desire to treat animals as just expendable biological machines as soon as you figure out they can secrete a substance you like?

What about the consequences affecting the animals themselves from all those fattening antibiotics, being chained up or whatever?

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Re:Scientists discover spider species that feeds its young milk by vibrato on Saturday December 01, 2018 @11:22AM (#18577375)
It’s called being a human. We are intelligent apex predators who exploit everything we possibly can.
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Re:Scientists discover spider species that feeds its young milk by YeGoblynQueenne on Saturday December 01, 2018 @11:41AM (#18577476)
For the record, we're not the only species who farms other animals. E.g. carpenter ants famously farm aphids (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter_ant).

And of course our skill at exploiting other animals for sustenance is nothing compared to that of parasites.

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Re:Scientists discover spider species that feeds its young milk by EGreg on Saturday December 01, 2018 @11:52AM (#18577545)
Honeypot ants farm their own, interesting.
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Re:Scientists discover spider species that feeds its young milk by felipemnoa on Saturday December 01, 2018 @02:34PM (#18578461)
With an emphasis on predators.
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Re:Scientists discover spider species that feeds its young milk by drngdds on Saturday December 01, 2018 @11:16AM (#18577345)
They don't matter very much here because unlike cows, spiders probably can't experience suffering.
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