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GliderGuider

(21,088 posts) Wed Oct 8, 2014, 02:52 PM Oct 2014

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Your thought for the day: Cities are human CAFOs. nt

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Your thought for the day: Cities are human CAFOs. nt (Original Post) GliderGuider Oct 2014 OP

Pretty much, but Jackpine Radical Oct 2014 #1

I'm sure there's a way to fix that... GliderGuider Oct 2014 #2

That is a topic on which I shall remain Jackpine Radical Oct 2014 #3

Ow! GliderGuider Oct 2014 #4

Shivers! Creepy thought. Dont call me Shirley Oct 2014 #5

No, they are the equivalent of a bee hive or a ant colony. Agnosticsherbet Oct 2014 #6

Many of the individuals do seem to have the IQ of an ant ... Nihil Oct 2014 #7

Humans are social animals. Agnosticsherbet Oct 2014 #8

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)

1. Pretty much, but

Reply to GliderGuider (Original post)

Wed Oct 8, 2014, 02:59 PM

Oct 2014

a lot of the meat just goes to waste.

--Jackpine the Countrified Curmudgeon

GliderGuider

(21,088 posts)

2. I'm sure there's a way to fix that...

Reply to Jackpine Radical (Reply #1)

Wed Oct 8, 2014, 03:04 PM

Oct 2014

Something something Green, or something.

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)

3. That is a topic on which I shall remain

Reply to GliderGuider (Reply #2)

Wed Oct 8, 2014, 03:07 PM

Oct 2014

soylent.

GliderGuider

(21,088 posts)

4. Ow!

Reply to Jackpine Radical (Reply #3)

Wed Oct 8, 2014, 03:15 PM

Oct 2014

That hurt!

Dont call me Shirley

(10,998 posts)

5. Shivers! Creepy thought.

Reply to GliderGuider (Original post)

Wed Oct 8, 2014, 03:35 PM

Oct 2014

Agnosticsherbet

(11,619 posts)

6. No, they are the equivalent of a bee hive or a ant colony.

Reply to GliderGuider (Original post)

Wed Oct 8, 2014, 04:27 PM

Oct 2014

Human's being soical animals, and all.

Nihil

(13,508 posts)

7. Many of the individuals do seem to have the IQ of an ant ...

Reply to Agnosticsherbet (Reply #6)

Thu Oct 9, 2014, 05:21 AM

Oct 2014

> Human's being social animals, and all.

Social animals with guns, knives, bombs and an ingrained habit of using them for personal gain.

Agnosticsherbet

(11,619 posts)

8. Humans are social animals.

Reply to Nihil (Reply #7)

Thu Oct 9, 2014, 05:43 PM

Oct 2014

IQ has nothing to do with it. We are evolved to live in groups. Before the developmet of cities, we organized soically in different ways, tribal being the longest existing social oraganization.

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