5d ago

‘Bizarre and wrong’: Danish zoo sparks debate with plea for pets to use as food

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5d ago

‘Bizarre and wrong’: Danish zoo sparks debate after asking people to donate their pets to feed animals

www.theguardian.com /world/2025/aug/09/bizarre-and-wrong-danish-zoo-sparks-debate-with-plea-for-pets-to-use-as-food

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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.
Bitch.
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.
- Why is a cow less deserving of a life than a dog? A life is a life
  
  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.
- 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
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial
  
  Not in our culture, though. Forcing a culture onto people is deemed invasive and often seen as an act of violence. You could use vast resources and sway public opinion with propaganda campaigns that last generations. That could do the job. For a while.
- 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.

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