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> Imagine if Tigers only ate the tails or ear flops of their prey and then ran off after that. Not exactly the same, but orcas literally follow baby belugas un
by buzzerbetrayed 4y ago
> Imagine if Tigers only ate the tails or ear flops of their prey and then ran off after that.
Not exactly the same, but orcas literally follow baby belugas until they are too tired to swim any further and drown. Then the orcas eat the lower jaw (most delicate part I guess) and leave the rest of the beluga to go to waste.
Point being, probably better to not point to the practices of other animals to determine whether or not what we’re doing is ethical.
- antipotoad 4y agoOne need only spend a little time browsing some of the more graphic nature subreddits to very quickly learn that life ends in spectacularly brutal ways for a great many wild animals. Predation is messy; predators don’t care.
- not_the_fda 4y agoYes, but humans are really good at doing it at scale.