You should read up on the Lotka-Volterra predator/prey equation. It would help you to understand what the Animal Rights individual was attempting to explain to you about exponential growth. She is quite right.
Before you are so quick to ask aspersions on an established biological fact, you should have a gander at the mathematics which form the foundation for the theories of population dynamics.
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