Biological rodent control initiative Owls Eat Rats was crowned this year’s winner of The Hatch: Taronga Accelerator Program, taking home a massive $50,000 cash prize.
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Biological rodent control initiative Owls Eat Rats was crowned this year’s winner of The Hatch: Taronga Accelerator Program, taking home a massive $50,000 cash prize.
Unfortunately the AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) on this article is unavoidable.
Dead rats is not uplifting news but rats not dying slow deaths by poison is uplifting news, but owls being enslaved to fix human problems is not uplifting but developing a new natural solution to fix an old natural problem is uplifting news. Sos moral error 404 help!
Where are you seeing owls being enslaved in the article? It says the initiative builds and expands habitats for owls.
And even if they were being enslaved, that’s better than minefields of (artificial) poison in our (natural) environment. Even if you’re a vegan, there’s enslaved hordes of plants behind your survival. It’s always what’s better.
To be honest I only read the title, bumped into a paywall when i clicked the link and couldn’t be bothered to put more effort in it.
I do agree on this.
But not on this, although i am not gonna argue why slave animals is a thing and slave plants is not a thing.
You’re right, it’s finding the balance - that was the topic of my comment basically.
I think bonzi trees are enslaved. Like, they’re purposefully mutilated and stunted in their growth for the tastes of beings vastly beyond their comprehension.
By that same vein, I think most commercial trees are probably enslaved too. Do you know what they do to walnut trees in the central valley of California? They cut old trees down to the stumps, then Frankenstein little sallplings onto those stumps like gluing the top half of a toddler onto world class powerlifter legs. It’s honestly kinda fucked up even if they didn’t feel anything, and studies have repeatedly shown that plants can probably feel something analogous to pain.
Argh, I chose this AMP article over one that displayed properly because it didn’t seem to have a paywall. Guess that was just my browser extension. I’ll see what I can do.
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