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[โ€“] Allonzee 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The ones we just hunt to extinction are the lucky ones.

We put the ones we find cute when we "develop" their land into cages, and force them to breed despite being effectively extinct solely so we can gawk at them for our amusement.

We pump the ones we find delicious with laboratory hormones to make them freakishly obese, and cramp them in factory farms until they're obese enough to kill.

As far as the rest of the natural world is concerned, we are the monster under the bed.