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The creators of this project told me they actually wondered if PETA would take offense. Ideally, though, the tardigrades would have had plenty of algae and room to swim around/reproduce.

> I eat meat but do not like seeing anything suffer for purposes of amusement.

Far worse things happen to the animals you eat than ever happened to these critters in their aquarium.

I'm a meat-eater too, but I try to be honest with myself about it.

Just in case you're not joking I'll point out that water bears do not suffer in any meaningful sense because they have far fewer neurons than even a mosquito.

There's a banned user that posted the right answer to this comment - lol. Where to even begin?