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Blutengel wrote:
I still think you're missing something...
The culling of offspring from clutches of cornsnakes happens. It is a necessity, in one manner or another, for one reason or another. Regardless of the reasoning, feeding the euthanized snakes is an option not an excuse.
Nobody is saying "I feed the dead top my kingsnakes" to make themselves FEEL better or SOUND better. It is simply stated as a fact that the dead offspring do not go to waste. It is not a by-product of producing redundant animals, it is a by-product or breeding, and it is inevitable and un-escapable. The simple act of feeding off the dead, rather than simply tossing them in the wastebasket, is economical...not an excuse. It saves on the cost of food, and uses a waste product in a resourceful manner. It isn't an excuse to kill, it is a RESULT of the killing.
I do think that we need to agree to disagree
. But I think the distinction needs to be made between using feeding as an excuse or as a resourceful ends. I think it is arrogant and accusatory to say anyone that says "I fed them to my _____" is simply using it as an excuse. The statement implies a choice was made that needn't have been made, and I simply feel that this is entirely untrue. The offspring will be killed, whatever is done with the bodies, and your statement of it being "an excuse" implies that the animals are needlessly slaughtered, and I think that is an unfair implication...
"I do think feeding them off is better then wasting them of course but do not try to make yourself look better in a discusiin, saying that you do feed them to other animals... you are still producing redundant animals only for the purpose of breeding the snake you lie, not to keep other animals alive. In ay other breeding business this fact would not be 'covered' by feeding them to other animals...
I still think you're missing something...
The culling of offspring from clutches of cornsnakes happens. It is a necessity, in one manner or another, for one reason or another. Regardless of the reasoning, feeding the euthanized snakes is an option not an excuse.
Nobody is saying "I feed the dead top my kingsnakes" to make themselves FEEL better or SOUND better. It is simply stated as a fact that the dead offspring do not go to waste. It is not a by-product of producing redundant animals, it is a by-product or breeding, and it is inevitable and un-escapable. The simple act of feeding off the dead, rather than simply tossing them in the wastebasket, is economical...not an excuse. It saves on the cost of food, and uses a waste product in a resourceful manner. It isn't an excuse to kill, it is a RESULT of the killing.
I do think that we need to agree to disagree