Aalborg zoo points to importance of mimicking natural feeding, but critics say its campaign devalues pets
    • excral@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      If lab grown meat becomes readily available and reasonably cheap, that may become a reasonable argument.

  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    1 month ago

    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.

  • magic_lobster_party@fedia.io
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    1 month ago

    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.

      • magic_lobster_party@fedia.io
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        1 month ago

        It’s a matter of emotional perspective. If I have a cow as livestock, then I have the mindset that it should provide food. If I have a cow as a pet, then I have the mindset that it should be part of the family.

          • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 month ago

            Nobody accuses humanity of being rational. We are quite selfish about who we care for and who we don’t.

            • 🦄🦄🦄@feddit.orgEnglish
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              1 month ago

              And yet we have overcome this innate selfishness in so many other aspects. Shrugging your shoulders and saying “Oh well, guess I just don’t care about these sentient beings getting killed for my convenience” is just lazy. We are better than that.

              • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                1 month ago

                If we’re better than that we probably shouldn’t run zoos in the first place. The fact that we do tells me we have a long way to go and I’m saying this as someone who enjoys zoos.

                • 🦄🦄🦄@feddit.orgEnglish
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                  1 month ago

                  Yeah I wonder what the common evil is here between for-profit zoos and making money by killing animals and selling their body parts.

          • magic_lobster_party@fedia.io
            15·
            1 month ago

            It’s about showing that final bit of respect to a family member who has given us so much love.

            Or do you put grandma in the dumpster?

    • wolfpack86@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      1 month ago

      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?

    • Venia Silente@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      1 month ago

      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.