I Will Not Eat The Bugs
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Insect Farming Kills More Insectes Than Crop Farming
Insect farms would raise many more animals in one year than all other s of factory farming have in their history to date. A fly has less than nort point one % the moral value of a cow, and i don't really care about cows a super huge amount either. It's tempting to say something like crop farming kills more insects than insect farming because it occupies weigh more than 400 thousand acres and involves a lot of pesticide. But bryan thomasick says that if you're trying to prevent insect suffering, crop Farming is probably net positive. There are 25 million insects per hectar lincoln post, which means ten trillion insects equals 400 thousand hectares - the size of rhode island
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