[mburbank]

I don't know here you learned ecology, but decomposers are a totally seperate class. I called Humans Top Predators, a term that refers to predacious animals (which Omnivores can be) which have no natural enemies that prey on them.

Now you're talking about just American species protction laws as opposed to the inherent value of biodiversity? Sorry I missed that switch. The fact that you haven't heard of 'endangered' strains of staple crops is only becuase you're uneducated on the subject. Most varieties of cultivated plants in human history are more than endangered, they are in fact extinct, although potentially and with a lot of effort we could breed backwards to similar (though not the same) strains. Corporate farming relies heavily on singke strains as they are far easier to bulk produce.