nobox

By and large, animals are parasites to plants and the food chain proves that. There is little feedback loop from animals to plants. The implication is that we need to make sure plants are first colonized on mars. No animal is needed from self-sustaining standpoint. In my opinion, music is not as essential as air or water.

This is exactly what I oppose. We can imagine a world that all the animals are extinct but cannot imagine a world that plants are extinct. We can live without beef, but not without wheat, potatoes and etc. This is just a small argument from food perspective. Plants provide oxygen, fuel, and shapes the biosphere as we know it. This understanding has implication for the future martial colonization.

Clearly plants are a magnitude more important to humans' welfare, compared to animals. Yet because of we are animals so our vantage point gives more weight to animals.