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It is not particularly convincing in the last part, the most relevant part: our own selfish interests in prioritizing people related to us over those not relate
by barrkel 4y ago
It is not particularly convincing in the last part, the most relevant part: our own selfish interests in prioritizing people related to us over those not related, close to us over those far from us, and so on. It does a lot of handwaving around environmental interconnectedness but it doesn't add up to much of an argument if you don't fully buy the whole ecosystem thing, and if you do buy that, we should be paying more attention to bees than farm animals.
- pawsforthought 4y agoIndeed we should be paying attention to bees. Wild pollinators are being assaulted by pesticides and by honey bees outcompeting them. This matters because honey bees do not pollinate all the plants we care about. Whole regions of China have managed to exterminate their pollinator species, such that fruit trees must be pollinated by hand.