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Latirostris t1_je6t1hf wrote

Reply to comment by Expendable_Red_Shirt in Maryland Zoo mourns unexpected death of giraffe, Willow by Expendable_Red_Shirt

Because the people who care for the giraffes are probably the same people who care for the lions and that's a really fucked up thing to think they would make them do.

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Expendable_Red_Shirt OP t1_je6vjln wrote

I still don’t understand why that is morbid.

Now obviously the zoo isn’t doing this. Animals are on regimented diets.

But it’s not morbid at all. Farmers routinely eat the animals that they personally cared for. I get people like to think of meat as something from a factory but it had a face once. And I’m guessing most, if not all, of the lions’ diets consist of meat. The people who take care of them know that.

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Latirostris t1_je6x0ct wrote

Would you eat your pet when it dies? It's not the same thing. I've raised animals for slaughter before and it's not the same way I think of my pets.

*Just to add: a farmer also has hundreds of animals to look after, they don't develop the type of relationships I would imagine zoo keepers put in with all of the training and specialized 1 on 1 attention they get. Plus that has got to be a violation of alot of USDA rules and the endangered species act.

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PigtownDesign t1_jeb1od1 wrote

When we were kids, my brother spent summers at a friend's farm. He bought a calf (Gracie) and raised it to be slaughtered and sold. My dad wrote an article for the Sun about this circle of life, and for WEEKS afterwards, people would call us (old days, phone book, home phone) and shout "MURDERERS!!!!" Not too nice for a bunch of kids, who hadn't thought of it like that. And yes, we did eat Grace!

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Latirostris t1_jeba9x9 wrote

I ate the cows I raised too. All I'm saying is it's a different mentality, that's all.

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Expendable_Red_Shirt OP t1_je71j6a wrote

Would I eat my pet? No. But that’s a ridiculous question. I don’t eat any animals of that class. Also these people aren’t eating the giraffe themselves. They’re feeding it to another animal.

Would I object to my pets corpse being fed to a lion? Of course not. That’d be absurd.

Also these aren’t pets.

And of course this didn’t happen. I’m just pointing out it’s no more morbid than anything in nature or anything the lion keepers do daily.

Edit I’ll point out many people are signing up to have their bodies turned into composte for trees and such: literally becoming food for plants. This seems to be a you problem.

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hamburgermenality t1_je7785j wrote

Personally I think I could be a cannibal if I had too without too much cognitive dissonance, but I’m fairly sure I’m an outlier.

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Latirostris t1_je733qd wrote

And that's your opinion. Others, like me feel it is exceedingly morbid and extremely unfeeling to the people who are mourning the loss of this animal.

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Slime__queen t1_je773x4 wrote

It’s weird to argue this much over something that’s definitely not gonna happen, but also, a lot of people find the idea of a body fulfilling some kind of natural purpose or becoming part of a cycle very consoling and meaningful. No need to be so horrified at the mere suggestion some people might see mourning and death differently than you

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Expendable_Red_Shirt OP t1_je77idl wrote

I just don't understand how this is "exceedingly morbid" but eating animals you raised and cared for isn't. Seems pretty much the same except for people choose to eat meat while the lions have to. If anything what the farmers are doing is far more morbid.

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