On the topic of crickets, mice and slugs:
I truly believe that any biodiverse sense of order includes insects,
beneficial and destructive. This is a compromise from a harvesting point
of view in terms of quality, quantity and sometimes just plain loss.
However this is nature and we are a part of nature. To control means to
destroy. We have destroyed far enough in attempts to control whether by
chemical means (thus harming the Monarch Butterfly, etc.), cutting down
redwoods or rain forests (and their undiscovered inhabitatants and
eco-systems), by fishing with large seine nets - harming dolphins), or
by spraying for mosquitoes. Need I go on?
There are many cultures that laugh at the Western approach of shoot
first ask NO questions.
What has happened here?
In a truly biodiverse system, you forage for what is available in season
and you learn to store or die. Later we learned to dehydrate (jerky) or
salt or store underground (root cellar). Then we canned or froze. Now we
irradiate or geneticically engineer.
Somewhere along the line we no longer aligned ourselves with nature and
chose to override, rule, cause massive destruction and devastation and
generally decide to control the eco-system.
Does this bother you?
Slugs still bother me.
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