Cruelty in bread making (some small lifeforms were harmed in the making of this loaf)

[wushi]

I was making a batch of bread over this past weekend, and it occurred to me how cruel bread making seems if you anthropomorphize your yeast at all.

So. You have this organism, indeed a whole culture (heh), frozen in a kind of metabolic stasis. And you want to harvest the product of this culture's work. So, you bring it out of stasis, not only by

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[wushi]

Thanks!