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Re: How You Helped the Animals in 2015 & World's Deadliest Animals
Posted: Sun May 08, 2016 8:41 pm
by MachineGhost
Xan wrote:
What about flies, mosquitos, scorpions, spiders, roaches, ants? What about Myxozoa, aquatic parasitic animals smaller than 20 micrometers? (Turns out those have the same rights as people!)
I don't like killing spiders preferring relocation (unless they're those creepy HUGE black widows), but the rest seem to be fair game. There's an invisible fuzzy logic line that separates animals worth killing from not worth killing. Pests? OK! Pest eaters? Not OK! To eat as food? OK! Not to eat as food? Not OK!
Nature sure has decided that life is pretty cheap.
Re: How You Helped the Animals in 2015 & World's Deadliest Animals
Posted: Mon May 09, 2016 7:28 am
by jafs
MachineGhost wrote:
jafs wrote:
I found it very easy to become vegetarian, and didn't crave meat at all that I can remember.
Are you Ashkenazi by any chance?
I don't know - never had my blood tested.
But, it's very possible.
Re: How You Helped the Animals in 2015 & World's Deadliest Animals
Posted: Mon May 09, 2016 7:30 am
by jafs
MachineGhost wrote:
jafs wrote:
The source I found was the very first one with the search - one a few down puts the number higher, at 150 billion. I'm not sure if the numbers include vivisection lab killings or not.
I perceived it as wild, distinct animal species. If you literally count each CAFO chicken, cow, pig, fish separately killed each week as an "animals" rather than one aggregate animal per species, then yeah, I guess 56 billion a year is not that preposterous. Just hyperbolic. We don't refer to each individual human being as a pluralistic "humans".
I don't get that.
If I kill 5 people, then we'd say I killed 5 people, not 1 person, right?