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Originally Posted by blindfireak40
All fair points! My mind tends to go in odd directions when I'm bored/caffeinated, and I just sorta had this thought...seemed like it might be a good discussion piece
For my part, I agree with the statements posted above, but as a question of ethics I'm not sure. As feeder animals, their quality of life is not going to be that great no matter how you slice it...I agree that if complications were to arise in the mothers, it would be a poor decision, but the babies would be immediately frozen or consumed in this hypothetical world. I personally don't think there'd be an ETHICAL difference between this and full-term frozen rat pinks.
Again, this isn't just a practical discussion; I agree there's not really an argument to be had practically, as Mice satisfy the nutritional needs for all the snakes that this would apply to.
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that's not necesarily true. i've bred and fed many feeders and they all have excellent lives. that's one of the reasons i find it so hard to euthanize happy, healthy, docile rats. i wish all of our food animals were raised in such good conditions, our meat would taste much better then pen crammed, hormone filled animals.
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