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mayorchid@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’d say, yes, you are literally consuming your food to take anything of value that your body can extract from it, often at the cost of everything for the thing you’re eating (but definitely at the cost of the parts you eat). Like I’m a bit baffled as to how you can consider it not a form of theft. Hell, I’d even argue it is the purest form of theft there is and quite likely the original theft that only scavengers, photosynthesizers, and other life forms that survive on non-biological sources of energy aren’t thieves in that manner.

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• ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Am I “stealing” fat from the food I eat?

  Yes you are and you need to be stopped.

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  • mayorchid@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I would have gotten away with it, too, if not for you mean cows

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• thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It uses the chloroplast as the algae uses them. It doesn’t really it them it uses them to photosynthesize. If you took the wing off the chicken and used it to fly you could say that was stealing its wing

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• psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I assume chloroplast is much more complex than fat and we do actually have fat within our body, while the slug doesn’t naturally grow chloroplast.

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  • Windex007@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Am I stealing chloroplasts when I eat a salad?

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    • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Can you photosynthesis afterward?

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      • Windex007@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I imagine there is an incredibly short window in which I technically can.

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      • Chakravanti@monero.town ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Can we learn how to steal the chloroplastic piracy of the algea?

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