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Spiders 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 huma
by groestl 8y ago
Spiders 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."