‘Bizarre and wrong’: Danish zoo sparks debate with plea for pets to use as food
Aalborg zoo points to importance of mimicking natural feeding, but critics say its campaign devalues pets
Why do you have to kill animals to feed your carnivores? Can’t you just buy meat?
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lolol did somebody actually say that?? Pretty funny either way...
from what I recall though, the zoo prefers small animals (think rats, hamsters, rabbits) because they better resembles the prey the zoo animals would normally eat. And yes they do euthanise them first!
How dare they make people think of death. Evil.
If lab grown meat becomes readily available and reasonably cheap, that may become a reasonable argument.
For Clauss, the heated debate unleashed this week recalled one of the emails sent to Copenhagen zoo after the euthanasia of the giraffe. “It said: ‘Why do you have to kill animals to feed your carnivores? Can’t you just buy meat?’”
I swear people get stupider every day.
removed.
Here's what I can offer you: how about we instead deliver billionaires as food?
It’s quite tone deaf of the zoo to call for pets. Pets are family members. We want them to have a respectful death. We don’t send grandma to get eaten by lions when her time has come.
I mean...it's not lions, but some cultures does burial rituals by letting the corpse be eaten by animals. In my opinion, giving your body back to nature is quite respectful
It isn't tone deaf. People are free to decide for themselves if they want to participate or not. If someone is okay with it they are not doing any damage to those who don't feel like doing it. The same goes the other way around.
The article left out that they weren't asking for cats and dogs but things like rabbits. If the rabbits procreate and can't be given a home, what alternative is there? Euthanize them and bury them? Cremate them?
As with all pets they should be sterilized.
If we gotta have humans eaten, let it be the billionaires. A more greasy version of soylent green, but otherwise much gooder for the environment.
