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Why would they eat us rather than say enslave us or farm us for resources.
by angrydev 7y ago
Why would they eat us rather than say enslave us or farm us for resources.
- Terretta 7y agoOr all of those — use every part of the cow.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y agoActually, eating us makes significantly more sense. Any alien civilization with the capability to travel interstellar distances is unlikely to have any particular need of our terrestrial resources (including labor) when there's plenty of raw material orbiting any given star including our own that's much less trouble to get at. However one can envision "alien meat", having required light-years of travel (and corresponding years of time) to acquire, as a status-signaling delicacy. Hell, it might even be technically illegal, which is why it's so small scale.
- klyrs 7y agoSlavery isn't all chattel -- we exploit people for various sorts of entertainment as well: performance, gladiatorial combat, sexual pleasure... And we're not just meat. Our world hosts a variety of biological life, and they might just be spice traders in search of exotic flavors without regard for other intelligent life forms