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symbiosis???

How is human hunting a matter of symbiosis? OR rather how is "organically" raised cattles a matter of symbiosis. Are we and the cattles similar organisms? is there mutualism involved? We raise the cattles then we kill them. It is not part of the natural food chain and it does not cycle back in the wild. 

When a wolf eats a deer, it's following the food chain, in a certain order. however if we eat the deer, the deer is leaving the food chain.  and when we raise cattles, the cattles aren't even part of the natural food chain. They are more like industrial products that we have created and used, and not really living creatures.

 

I think it's okay for us to eat meat, hunt for meat, if it is not done in mass amounts. we should not exploit our resources just because we can, and we are "superior" Everything should take environemtnal sustailability into account. we could possible kill off endangered animals because we have taken away their food. 

So when we are raising "industrially organic" food it is not symbiosis.

 

 

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