PETA miffed at President Obama's fly "execution"
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Re: PETA miffed at President Obama's fly "execution"
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Eat some flies. Maybe you can get Obama to kill some for you.Clinton Huxley wrote:I am so hungry right now.
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Re: PETA miffed at President Obama's fly "execution"
A fly for exi.Existentialist1844 wrote:Eat some flies. Maybe you can get Obama to kill some for you.Clinton Huxley wrote:I am so hungry right now.
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Re: PETA miffed at President Obama's fly "execution"
There are two very valid reasons for an organism to kill another: Resource partitioning and resource partitioning.Xamonas Chegwé wrote: I don't believe Obama was intending to eat the fly, was he? Both Obama and the teenager killed an animal for no reason other than it happened to cross their path.
In one sense, predation is resource partitioning: All your resource are belong to me!
In another sense, protecting resources from predation is resource partitioning: Don't you fucking taint my food! *swat*
I leave flies alone outside. They do good work. But flies in my home constitute an unhealthy sharing of my resources. If my arachnid roommates were more efficient predators, I might let nature take its course, but I can kill a fly anywhere in my home without having to wait for it to stumble into a web.
Some people are particularly stupid and refuse to share their space with spiders. For them, manual fly killing is the only viable option. As I stated earlier, it tends to be more energy efficient than catching and releasing them, leaving more energy resources for sex or, in my case, forum whoring. I do treat parasitoid wasps differently than flies: they tend to produce fewer offspring and their benefits to humanity are significantly greater than just being a ready food source for other animals, so I will go out of my way to catch and release parasitoid wasps or more dangerous spiders (I tend to prefer living with spiders which don't pack quite so big a punch in the venom department. I particularly enjoy living with members of family Salticidae, as I can have all of the benefits of spider roommates without having to clean up old webs).
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Re: PETA miffed at President Obama's fly "execution"
I reckon we should round them up and put them into gas chambers.
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Re: PETA miffed at President Obama's fly "execution"
Or Clinton Huxley's stew.Animavore wrote:I reckon we should round them up and put them into gas chambers.
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