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Family Mealworms with Patrick Redford

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The Ethics of Killing Mealworms

This week on The Daily Discussion, Jarrett Bellini explores the ethics of killing bugs. He starts by asking: Do worms have souls? Can worms feel pain? Will this cause them harm? Does this make you a murderer? What are the ethics here? Well, see, this is where the committee structure works. You need to have your insect cosmology and spirituality committee meet,. decide these answers and whatever they say goes because that's how the committee structure work. It's not completely clear to me if euthanizing dying bugs is more humane than leaving them to die on their own. This page describes the two methods that I used to kill bugs as little pain as possible. One, through

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