Life eating other life.

[Anomalocaris]

I really do hate the fact that life has to eat other life to survive. I don't care if it is Seagull eating a fish or whatever. In reality I accept, that even I eat other life. But sometimes in watching nature documentaries I hate the narrative.

Just today I was watching a BBC nature documentary which included the hunting habbits of Orcas or "killer whales". And in it they tracked the habbits of a pod of killer whales targeting the calf of a sperm whale. 


I get that the Orcas need to eat like all life. I simply don't like the thought of the weak being food.

Every complex organism is a big package of exploitative opportunities for other organisms.     Even the strongest apex Marco predator is but an ambulatory meat locker for parasites and pathogens.

So there seems to be nothing more than particular squeamishness in picking out macro-predation as more distasteful than infection or any other exploitative inter-species relationship. 

We might think we, by virtue of intelligence and technology, are the ultimate apex predators,  but nature guffaws loudly at our pretenses and fabricated numerous different organisms designed to feast exclusively our species.   By all indications most of these, as species, are prospering as never before.