In The Food Chain All Flesh Is Grass

India annually produces about 12 million tonnes
of flesh unfit for human consumption, which is left
to rot in the open air of the countryside.
Vultures used find what humans left behind a peculiar treat,
and consumed what was rotten.
Between 1992 and 2002 the Indian vulture population
from 40,000,000 birds to about 20,000 due to poisoning
from anticoagulant chemicals left in dead cattle.
Wild dogs replaced the vultures in the revised food chain,
and increased their numbers increased by 7 million.
In addition to tidying up the fleshly detritus humans left behind
the dogs were repositories for diseases humans could get
and now every year 5000 people who lived
when the vultures had pride of place die of dog bites.
In the food chain all flesh is grass, food for others to eat.
Even human flesh will get cheaper for those who can think
for others being less thoughtful,
as the pecking order in the food chain collapses.
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