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Re:Animals as Chemical Factories by throw939494 on Sunday December 15, 2024 @03:42PM (#42425849)
Silk worm industry is the definition of long-term sustainable exploitation of biosphere. It was done for thousand years, with minimal resources, no polution, it captures CO2... It only takes a few worms and some leafs! Chemical alternatives are poluting and poising, land air and waters!
Re:Animals as Chemical Factories by benchmarkist on Sunday December 15, 2024 @03:45PM (#42425866)
How about we leave the silk worms alone.
Re:Animals as Chemical Factories by alphan0n on Sunday December 15, 2024 @04:12PM (#42426009)
Pretty rich coming from someone sending virtue signals from a device I presume isn’t constructed from twigs and berries.

Must be difficult as a person who doesn’t exploit the biosphere.. you’ll have to let us know how you mastered photosynthesis.

Re:Animals as Chemical Factories by benchmarkist on Sunday December 15, 2024 @04:43PM (#42426187)
I don't eat meat and don't drive cars. How about you?
Re:Animals as Chemical Factories by alphan0n on Sunday December 15, 2024 @07:26PM (#42426966)
As a level 99 druid, I have not moved from this spot in over 300 hundred years. My clothes consist of centuries accumulation of dust. I eat meat, but only beings that choose to end their existence in my perpetually open mouth. I breathe four times a year. I reproduce by sporulation, prodigiously, my offspring is responsible for the ozone layer. I convey this information to you by way of telepathy through an intermediary, Shawn of Ohio, an intern in IT who maintains his WFH infrastructure by peddling a stationary bicycle.
Re:Animals as Chemical Factories by aziaziazi on Monday December 16, 2024 @08:21AM (#42430712)
Can’t achieve perfection so goodness is out of question?
Re:Animals as Chemical Factories by throw939494 on Sunday December 15, 2024 @03:56PM (#42425920)
Silk worms would starve to death if left alone.
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Re:Animals as Chemical Factories by throw939494 on Sunday December 15, 2024 @04:53PM (#42426241)
> Domestic silk moths are entirely dependent on humans for reproduction, as a result of millennia of selective breeding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombyx_mori

Re:Animals as Chemical Factories by aziaziazi on Monday December 16, 2024 @08:16AM (#42430683)
Did they agree on to be later breed, boil then breed their kids and boils them too? This is crazy. We all know the reason we feed them is for our own interest.
Re:Animals as Chemical Factories by throw939494 on Monday December 16, 2024 @01:40PM (#42433892)
Of course they agreed. It is like little boys and cutting digs. They just love that shit!
Re:Animals as Chemical Factories by aziaziazi on Monday December 16, 2024 @02:02PM (#42434129)
You are so fun man I wonder why you don’t use your real account to gather lol points.
Re:Animals as Chemical Factories by aziaziazi on Monday December 16, 2024 @08:19AM (#42430698)
It takes a few worms and lots of leafs. Got a friend in that industry and the partnership with Brazil is flourishing.