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Out of curiosity, what eats more animals, humans or the rest of the animal kingdom?
by ibejoeb 8y ago
Out of curiosity, what eats more animals, humans or the rest of the animal kingdom?
- groestl 8y agoSpiders consume twice the biomass of all adults on earth every year, so I think it's safe to say: Animals. Both in number as well as in weight, even if all humans adopted the US lifestyle (120kg meat/year).
- ibejoeb 8y agoOkay. I'm thinking that animal suffering ought not be the metric here, in that case.
- delecti 8y agoIs the argument that suffering (even if only of animals) isn't worth reducing if we aren't the main source of it globally? I don't think we should use nature as the metric for morality, because a lot of really terrible things are very "natural". Certainly we aren't going to "eliminate" animal suffering, the word the above comment used, but reduction is another matter.
- novia 8y agoSorry for the weird use of language. I was thinking of animal suffering as an ingredient in the meal. Akin to how people say, "the secret ingredient is love."