Live food...why? Honestly & with facts!

[Gavin]

There you go, doing it again. There are reasons between last resort and entertainment.

I don't agree with them.

If your snake can feed on f/t, then what reason is there to feed live?

I don't consider inconvenient to be a week excuse. Depending on the person it can be a perfectly logical reason.

I don't consider being lazy or being indifferent to the feeder's welfare as logical. Saying something like "oh who cares if it suffers" is pretty weak.

You are using words like unnecessary and cruelty and they are sorrily very subjective. What you consider unnecessarily cruel others might not. I don't necessarily accept your assertion that feeding live is unnecessarily cruel.

Well that's the beauty of discussion, isn't it? It all depends on context, really.

I think that's a very valid point that I agree with 100%. Its not analogous though. The death by BP is not even close to a glue trap.

Wasn't really supposed to be analogous, the principle behind it is the same however.

As for the rest of your post, fair enough. I have nothing really to argue there.