Feed the World

One more day to go – by tomorrow at 3pm it’ll all be over, one way or another.

Saw something that made me think today. In one of my clubs someone started a thread about how to breed feeder rats and mice for her snake. There were 5 replies before I got there and all of them seemed to accept that feeding live prey to a reptile is acceptable. Luckily it’s illegal over here (though of course it happens), but at least people doing it realise it’s not socially acceptable.

Which leads me to thinking – are there things in our society that we think is acceptable because our society does, whereas someone elses society thinks it’s not acceptable? I can think of plenty of things that American’s accept and we abhor – cropping, declawing, debarking and now feeding live food (obviously my reference range is someone limited to the animal industries) but it’s hard to think of something we don’t realise is potentially abhorant. Docking for example – we do it but in secret – we know we’re being naughty. Hunting – even if we agree with it we can’t ignore the fact that a large proportion of the country doesn’t. Even eating meat. If anyone can think of something we do that we accept blindly, let me know.

Ooo got one! We drink cow’s milk 😀 Apparently in the east they think that drinking milk once you’re weaned is odd enough, but to drink the milk of another species is just plain bonkers.

My blog is turning into a bit of a animal rights discussion forum. Odd.