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minus-squaregedaliyah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·7 hours agoWe really need ro stop thinking of bees as cute bugs and understand that they are livestock. “Hey, we are lifting the ban on spraying cattle-poison from the air,” sounds much more crazy.
minus-squareSnoopSqueak@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·6 hours agoHaving lived in the US all my life, I think the public reaction to cattle poison spray would be “well, as long as I can’t taste it in the meat.” I wish we all had more empathy for the life we share this planet with.
minus-squareMalyca@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 hours agoIt’s not just empathy for the sake of empathy. We are part of a delicate ecosystem that is affected in millions of ways, especially unnatural things. Everything we do to it will splash back on us.
We really need ro stop thinking of bees as cute bugs and understand that they are livestock.
“Hey, we are lifting the ban on spraying cattle-poison from the air,” sounds much more crazy.
Having lived in the US all my life, I think the public reaction to cattle poison spray would be “well, as long as I can’t taste it in the meat.”
I wish we all had more empathy for the life we share this planet with.
It’s not just empathy for the sake of empathy. We are part of a delicate ecosystem that is affected in millions of ways, especially unnatural things. Everything we do to it will splash back on us.