If you've ever been attacked by a seagull...
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 17:05,
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It was beauty killed the beast.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 17:48,
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'We're all like little psychopaths watching this seagull getting mauled'
Say members of public who seem to think that touring a concrete prison complex populated by animals displaced from their natural environments to be exploited for entertainment by gawping humans is otherwise totally fine and not fucked up at all.
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Since most zoo animals are captive born so can't be safely returned to the wild
And their costly care requires selling tickets to gawping humans, the only solution is to stop breeding those animals and sell them to Findus
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 18:42,
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I'm all for sanctuarys and other less exploitative means of conservation.
But let's be real, zoos are exploitation first, conservation a very distant second.
As you rightly state, the majority of the inmates are born into captivity and would stand about as much chance of surviving in the wild as Christopher McCandless should they ever be released. So, it just turns into an endless loop of breeding generation after generation of increasingly less authentic examples of each breed so that generation after generation of increasingly less authentic examples of our breed can walk around tormenting them.
We should absolutely stop breeding them if the primary objective is for financial gain. No need to turn them into dinners, though. We can just try to give them as comfortable and as dignified a life as we can until they die naturally and then build something useful on the site, like a treatment centre for addicts or an animal rescue centre.
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I've seen your username before online
butterscotch used it. great minds eh?
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tickle I was away, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 20:56,
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Butterscotch aka Badger Sized Rat aka Mental Ross?
Small world, indeed ;)
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indeed :D
indeed :D I used to be on here all the time a few years ago.
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tickle I was away, Fri 11 Mar 2022, 0:02,
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You’re increasingly less authentic.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 21:15,
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I mostly agree with you, I'm quite disgusted with myself.
Luckily you naturally wandered off into eugenics territory so I can still feel morally superior and the natural balance is maintained.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 22:22,
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But then where will I go for my interspecies death matches?
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Thu 10 Mar 2022, 7:42,
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I agree that zoos ideally should be phased out
But keep in mind many do participate in and raise funds for conservation work in the field. The reality is that people are much less generous when it comes to supporting animal causes so not sure who will fund dead end zoos. Also regarding "authenticity",
captive breeding among ethical zoos is designed to optimise genetic diversity. There's actually a lot of effort going into that. Another point to consider is the shrinking areas available for wildlife. Many parks now require management at a level that blurs the line between captive and wild populations.
Still, it can never justify Chinese zoos importing wild elephants from Zimbabwe and Namibia.
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Thu 10 Mar 2022, 8:22,
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zoo could raise more money for conservation if they pimped out their animals
Who among us hasn't dreamed of fucking a penguin? Or an ocelot. Or a threeway with a tapir and a capybara? At 20 quid a pop there'd be queues around the block
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 11 Mar 2022, 0:56,
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I hope they start releasing monkeys
into seaside towns with a seagull problem.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Thu 10 Mar 2022, 8:41,
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then we'll need to start releasing elephants to kill the monkeys
then sharks with lasers to kill the elephants
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