The food chain could you imagine being born just to be part of the food chain?

Question

If I was in the jungle and an animal is that all I would have to look forward too? It all seems so morbid to me.

Answer 1

All life is food, including you. Actually you are feeding millions, if not billions of critters right now. Bacteria! Yep, might be gross but they are grazing on you, and in you, day and night, and in numbers you cannot really imagine.

Answer 2

Sorry to drop bad news on you but unless you are planning to be cremated when you go, you too will become part of the food chain. The consolation is that you need not be concious of the inevitable (i.e. it occurs after you are dead & buried, not like some poor animals/insects/fish that are eaten alive).

What makes being eaten (after death preferably) any more morbid than the fact that you will eventually die anyway? All religions and cultures have views on this so it is a universally accepted aspect of life - that it ends.

You are born, you grow up, you reproduce thus repeating the cycle, you may even see the cycle repeat again (becoming a grandparent) and so on and one day it is time to go.

From the wording of the question & am guessing you are young. As life goes on the prospect of life ending becomes less intimidating. For example, my late grandmother was widowed when only 50 years old & lived alone after that until she was 96. She did not move on with life when her husband died, she pretty much waited to die. In her latter years she made no bones about the fact she would rather not be alive any more. Her quality of life was not very good. Her mobility was very poor and she was in pain with cancer and back trouble. For her, life held more pain and fear than the idea of death.

If you really want to be cold, consider the fact that in the animal world an animal does not get to live to be so old & infirm that the mer act of waking up in the morning is an ordeal. Once past it's prime an animal often gets a quick end - part of the food chain as you put it. In such an environment life is basically all an upward movement. The progress is from birth up through youth to adulthood and as the decline into the age of aches & pains starts, life is swiftly ended. Think of it in an abstract and detached way & it is not so bad. Think of it as yourself or a loved one & it is terrible.

I will say this though. I have put down instructions that I am not to be kept alive on some machine just to make the hospitals rich & my family suffer by watching a long protracted decline. I don't want the long suffering either. I have watched a family member go through it. Now my own mother is in the latter stages of Alzheimers & we (whole family) have put the same order in place. No invasive measures. She deserves the dignity of being allowed to pass away in peace, not to be stuffed full of pipes and chemicals so that she lokks like an experiment in a mad scientists lab, or a chemical plant. It would be different if it was a curable desease but it is not.

All the time we move further & further away from nature. We act as though nothing in nature applies to us - from insisting on modifying our climate (heating and air conditioning - global warming is a separate issue) to how we travel, where we live, how we treat animals and all other aspects of our environment so that we forget that we are part of the circle ouselves.

I have no worries about being part of the circle of life - just I'm not in a hurry to do it yet!

Plan for tomorrow, life for today, party tonight. Flippant? Yes, but you need a bit of light-heartedness in your life or you'll be a statistic long before your time. Live life to the fullest & it will treat you well.

Answer 3

1) We ARE a part of the food chain.
2) Eating is pleasurable for me and appears to be pleasurable to my dog and cats. Jungle animals may feel the same.
3) Morbid? It is real life.

Answer 4

You are part of the food chain darling. Luckily right at the top. You are also an animal, and in certain circumstances would be eaten by other animals

Answer 5

Some food-chain births aren't even humane. IE: Pork: The sows are put in what are called 'farrowing crates'. This means she doesn't even have room to turn around to nuzzle or clean any of her new-born piglets. (Pigs have proven to have a strong sense of family connections, much like dogs.) Then the piglets suckle from the other side of the crate bars, again, the mother not even being able to nuzzle them.
You can find all kinds of information at:
http://www.goveg.com/factoryFarming_chickens.asp

Answer 6

As a human being, you're part of the food chain right now. You don't realize it because you're at the top.

Answer 7

Life goes on and on and on.

Answer 8

Why not? someone/something has to eat something/someone.