Can't we engineer the spiders to grow bigger?
Or transplant the milk-gene to, say, tarantulas?
(I'm not a biologist, so no idea if these are good ideas or even make sense)
Or transplant the milk-gene to, say, tarantulas?
(I'm not a biologist, so no idea if these are good ideas or even make sense)
HN: Ok, picture this - gigantic, genetically engineered, milkable tarantulas!
Well, if we can we should make them really big, like cows, then we can use them as vehicles. Imagine riding a spider up a vertical surface, would be dead cool.
I'd call mine Larry.
- Anon, before the tarantula massacre
What about the consequences affecting the animals themselves from all those fattening antibiotics, being chained up or whatever?
And of course our skill at exploiting other animals for sustenance is nothing compared to that of parasites.