Burkhard Bilger, in an article about spiders in a New Yorker from 2007 I am presently re-reading, says;
“One Dutch researcher estimates that there are some five trillion spiders in the Netherlands alone, each of which consumes about one tenth of a gram of meat a day.
Were their victims people instead of insects, they would need only three days to eat all sixteen and a half million Dutchmen.”
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Paul
on April 22, 2010…. and they’d do great service to the cause of humour!
mike o'donnell
on April 22, 2010i could think of many worthier objects of their hunger including,but not restricted to,members of a certain-indeed over certain-political party.
could genetic engineering be put to work here?
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