Vasco, I wholeheartedly agree with you. I have my shelter for feral cats caring for them every day and I know from my daily experience that their life even in my protected garden has risks… I often think that If we were not in the XXI century with vet clinics, modern diagnostic tests and drugs, at least 25-30% of those cats would be already dead regardless of how well I feed them…
Thanks for sharing, Alex! I think the benefits from feeding feral cats to soil nematodes, mites, and springtails are much larger than those to the feral cats themselves. I estimate the benefits of buying beef to those soil animals are 1.82 M times the benefits to cows.
Thanks for drawing attention to this, Vasco! I am not yet at that level of satori to consider the well-being of soil nematodes, mites, and springtails—but who knows, maybe some day … ;)
Thanks, Alex! You may find it interesting that Rethink Priorities (RP) estimated nematodes to be 6.8 % likely to be sentient, 82.9 % (= 0.068/0.082) as likely as silkworms, and 15.1 % (= 0.068/0.451) as likely as salmon.
Vasco, I wholeheartedly agree with you. I have my shelter for feral cats caring for them every day and I know from my daily experience that their life even in my protected garden has risks… I often think that If we were not in the XXI century with vet clinics, modern diagnostic tests and drugs, at least 25-30% of those cats would be already dead regardless of how well I feed them…
Thanks for sharing, Alex! I think the benefits from feeding feral cats to soil nematodes, mites, and springtails are much larger than those to the feral cats themselves. I estimate the benefits of buying beef to those soil animals are 1.82 M times the benefits to cows.
Thanks for drawing attention to this, Vasco! I am not yet at that level of satori to consider the well-being of soil nematodes, mites, and springtails—but who knows, maybe some day … ;)
Thanks, Alex! You may find it interesting that Rethink Priorities (RP) estimated nematodes to be 6.8 % likely to be sentient, 82.9 % (= 0.068/0.082) as likely as silkworms, and 15.1 % (= 0.068/0.451) as likely as salmon.