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Denmark zoo asks public to donate unwanted small pets or horses to feed captive predators (www.cbsnews.com)
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[–] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Well the animals are being euthenized then fed to the animals to diversify their diets. If assisted suicide was legal here and I elected for it, I would have no qualms with checking a box that said feed my meat sack to the tigers. Although they might not want to do that as it may encourage the idea that the handlers/vets look a lot like food.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The comparable situation would be if your family grew tired of you, and some day decide to euthanize you and feed to tigers.
    To which your answer is probably "well, I'm a human, you can't do this to me, I don't want to be killed against my will", and we will be back to square one.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    No, you're making this about a humans ability to kill the animal, not what should be done with the dead carcus. The animals fate is already sealed, it's dead whether or not it goes to the zoo. Just means it is either thrown in a furnace or processed some other way.

    If you don't like that humans get to choose whar happens to the animals, I understand.. but that's something that should be protested or brought separately to your politicians.

    This is more like saying people shouldn't be able to elect to donate organs.

    Edit: or rather your family deciding to donate those organs to a someone who needs them after you're dead.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    It's a bit less about what happens to the body - that I don't give a shit about - it's about what happens to the live creature. It's not about accepting your dead pets, it's about accepting your alive pets to be killed, and I fundamentally don't like that, no matter will they kill them and fed the corpses to tigers, or burn it like kill shelters do.

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