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The trolley problem but its 1 chicken vs 3000 worms. > And don't bugs have [...] passions? Like what? Eating more dirt?? > In general, animal neuron number s
by its-summertime 3y ago
The trolley problem but its 1 chicken vs 3000 worms.
> And don't bugs have [...] passions?
Like what? Eating more dirt??
> In general, animal neuron number scales up slower than animal weight.
A brown bear and a house cat have similar neuron counts?
Additionally, assuming neurons are meshed, the ability gained from an additional neuron would be exponential, no?
Worms come in at like, what, 10,000 - 100,000 for their entire nervous system, compared to 221,000,000 for a fowl, not only is that 20,000x - 2,000x linearly, going with the assumption that each new neuron is probably more significant than the last, it would be more than worlds apart in ability to think.
> most factory-farmed insects are being raised as animal food and not for humans.
And therefore if you eat the chicken, you also must be aware of the moral cost of the fact that the insects were killed for the chicken, which was then killed for you. So, morally, just eat the bugs, don't do a double conversion, that's inefficient.