friendly reminder that down cows can’t go to slaughter. it’s literally illegal because of mad cow disease. Down cows that don’t show improvement are euthanized and either buried/composted or incinerated. meat from a euthanized animal cannot be sold, regardless of method used, because a USDA inspector has to overlook all slaughter for meat that gets sold legally. The “cows are milked until they’re downers and then they go to slaughter” rhetoric just isn’t true.
Ok, as a biology major, y’all need to chill. Snakes this big are incredibly docile. They have been bred this way. Furthermore, the person taking care of this animal could not properly take care of them if they did not feed them regularly and well. This child is in no more danger than if she was sitting next to a big dog.
Oh, and on snake yawning, the person above is wrong (SOURCE 1; SOURCE 2)
Please don’t demonize snakes people they’re amazing creatures and clearly this one means no harm
This is almost as bad as that shitty urban legend about the snake “measuring” its owner before eating them
Snakes are precious beans unlike the gross people above who demonize and spread false information about snakes.
Honestly snakes are better than tge average person 🤷♂️
Like you shouldn’t 100% trust a big animal around a child that small but I guarantee every single person shitting on this snake owner would trust a big dog in the same situation and NO MATTER HOW SWEET A DOG HAS ALWAYS BEEN a risk is always, always present. Definitely much more of a risk than a snake, which can go weeks or months between big meals without even feeling hungry again.
I wouldn’t leave the snake alone around the kid, just in case it squeezed too much without realizing, but it’s not that dangerous of a thing. I don’t think it could fit the kid’s head in its mouth anyway, let alone the shoulders.
Fun fact: there have been only a handful of instances of a constrictor snake killing a human, and one possibly-true story of one actually eating a human. Our shoulders don’t fit through their jaws, plus we’re too tall for them to easily grab by the head+neck like they prefer to catch prey.
Plus, most large constrictors are chill as heck. Unless you starve one or do something like poke it in the eye, it’s not going to bite you.
1) they DON’T hunt whitecoats. it’s only adult seals
2) the process is as quick and painless as possible. there’s a special technique in clubbing for an instantaneous death. hunters are very well trained and don’t hunt with the intention of harming the animal any more than it needs to be
3) not only is it government regulated but hunters only reach maybe 15 percent of their annual quota
4) seals consume an obscene amount of fish. to the point where it’s actually detrimental to the environment to have the population of seals get too high
5) seal meat is incredibly nutritious and an important resource for communities up north
6) these animals live in the wild their full lives until the need to be hunted
7) the cost of typical southern food up north is often 10 times as high and it’s very expensive to live off a diet without using the lands provided resources
seal meal is a very nutritious important resource that’s ethically sourced and important for indigenous people not only culturally but for survival through economic means and resources. equating indigenous practices to the mass consumption that the colonist meat industry enforced is a false equivalence. specifically targeting communities limited recourses and attacking indigenous people is an act of racism. try decolonizing your perception of how the world operates. we aren’t like you.
It’s so nasty that one of the greatest loss of seals is from commercial farming, by way of by fishing. (Sea creatures getting caught while they’re fishing for other sea creatures) and yet, indigenous populations who are deliberately being starved out by the colonizer government where they live are who are condemned for sealing? For survival hunting, where the animal’s suffering is as minimal as possible? While living where the most basic groceries are priced as luxury goods?
It’s an age old trick. Keep people blaming the oppressed group, keep people stomping on those below them, so they don’t look up at those who are stomping on them.
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