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A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. A billion just a foot note?

• protomyth 9y ago
  Do you want to write a song for the dead krills? Go ahead, write one. On a more serious, less timely paraphrase, the shear amount of death at the bottom of the food chain both on land and at sea is mind boggling.
  • evincarofautumn 9y ago
    Yup, all food is death. Vegetarians and vegans are just picking their ethical battles, really. I sometimes idly wonder things like how far we are from sci-fi synthesis of a complete diet from entirely inorganic materials that have never been in a living thing. It might even become a necessity as a spacefaring species. Although, humans separated by interstellar distances would almost certainly diverge to the point where maintaining a single “species” becomes dubious, even if you had constant interbreeding, so you might have humans eating local plants & animals on other planets that are nutritionally useless or hazardous to Earthlings.