‘Bizarre and wrong’: Danish zoo sparks debate with plea for pets to use as food
www.theguardian.com
Aalborg zoo points to importance of mimicking natural feeding, but critics say its campaign devalues pets
  • yesman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    1 month ago

    This is just an example of modern people being exposed to the reality of how they live unexpectedly and against their will.

    The way we categorize nature and our relation to it is arbitrary and incoherent because it all must support the ridiculous notion that people (and the animals that we name) exist outside or even above nature.

  • comador @lemmy.worldEnglish
    82·
    1 month ago

    I think everyone should be forced to either watch the entire process or kill and eat an animal themselves before they can comment on crap like this lol. Doing so generates an unimaginable amount of respect for life and death.

  • palordrolap@fedia.io
    1·
    1 month ago

    I was once privy to a, shall we say, “heated discussion”, about whether eating traditionally pet breeds of animal was acceptable. One position said it was wrong no matter what.

    Let’s call that ethical position 1.

    Another said it’d be OK as long as those animals were bred specifically for the purpose, were treated well while alive and were never pets. Like farm animals are (theoretically) treated.

    That’ll be slightly less ethical, position 2. Make a scale out of them. Draw a line between them and extend.

    Feeding euthanised, previously healthy pets to wild animals is - in my opinion - at least position 3 on this scale. Make those wild animals captives and you’re headed off in the direction of 4.

    I can’t say it’s wrong, but it ain’t right either.