Arthropods don't count in any way. Cruelty to those chitinous bastards must be written in to us on a genetic level because frankly I'm thinking about taking a jackhammer to a horseshoe crab at this very moment.
But yeah, I always got mildly ill when seeing the feeder mice cage at the pet store :(. I mean, go ahead and eat the vermin out in the wold, snakes, its what you were made to do, and lord knows they breed too fast without predators to keep them eaten. But for a person to keep a snake and import mice to pamper it with is sort of a horse of a different color. That's not the kind of nature appreciation I'd like to appreciate on a regular basis.
Re: Prometheus, the god of the sea ... uh... right?
Date: 2009-11-03 11:55 pm (UTC)But yeah, I always got mildly ill when seeing the feeder mice cage at the pet store :(. I mean, go ahead and eat the vermin out in the wold, snakes, its what you were made to do, and lord knows they breed too fast without predators to keep them eaten. But for a person to keep a snake and import mice to pamper it with is sort of a horse of a different color. That's not the kind of nature appreciation I'd like to appreciate on a regular basis.
Re: Prometheus, the god of the sea ... uh... right?
Date: 2009-11-04 02:30 am (UTC)