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“Sir, here’s your half of a cheese burger and your milkshake shot glass” - not a satiating option to deal with caloric density. And while it reduces the quanti

• pvaldes 3y ago
  Red pandas aren't humans. Zookeepers are (or should be) providing them yet with a lot of satiating fiber in the diet. Apples are just a treat to reduce boredom. But fruit prices had increased in the last years. And zoos are economically exhausted after two really difficult COVID years without visitors. So they are replacing fruits with a pear flavored pellet. Finding fruit at a supermarket that tastes like cardboard is not difficult. Even the most sweet varieties are picked green or treated chemically to look nice and last much longer in the market (the process burns sugar). The lack of available, organic, non treated fruit at an affordable price is obviously the real problem. Zoos need to explain to the public why the animals are not receiving fruit. Articles like those solve the PR problem providing a silly excuse.
  • hulitu 3y ago
    > The lack of available, organic, non treated fruit at an affordable price is obviously the real problem The real problem is that the organic, non treated fruit have the same quality (sweet, poor nutrients) like the other fruit. The only differences are the price and the lack of pesticides.