Re:Insects are more sensitive than they seem
by Ratalala on Saturday December 11, 2021 @03:37AM
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That's fallacious. Cows, pigs, sheep, turkeys, all existed before being farmed. And still exist in the while. Probably not on the scale of the 60 billions land animals slaughtered each year, though.
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Re:Insects are more sensitive than they seem
by hvusslax on Saturday December 11, 2021 @07:25AM
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Domesticated farm animals are far enough removed from their wild cousins to be their own species. They have been selectively bred over millenia for traits that make them easy to exploit for humans. Most of those traits work against them in the wild.
Re:Insects are more sensitive than they seem
by tempestn on Saturday December 11, 2021 @04:28AM
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This is what I'm saying - those 60 billion won't exist. Yes, wild animals, so much as they exist now, will continue to do so, but that's not really relevant.
Re:Insects are more sensitive than they seem
by sweetheart on Saturday December 11, 2021 @04:53AM
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Yes we should stop breeding them into horrible lives. The animals won’t go extinct though, so what’s the problem?