Is live feeding really that bad?

[BCS]

Okay, I am just going to put this out there because there seems to be a bit of arguing over this now. Many keepers do "keep" based on opinions. Heck, even those who don't keep snakes have an opinion. I HATE dogs, my opinion is that are messy, noisy, and need training. My opinion... I risk a bigger chance of getting bit by my mother in law's two dogs then I do my collection of 22 snakes... again my opinion. But my opinion is based on the deaths per year of dog attacks compared to ball python and boa attacks. So some of it is education while some of it is opinionated. Same goes here. It is educated that snakes do get harmed by live feeding... but it is someone else's opinion that live prey suffers this way and the fact that this happens ALL THE TIME... which it doesn't. I disagree to the whole suffering thing. I used to euthanize my own feeders using C02. It took 20 minutes. They basically suffocated while they slept, and the younger they are, the longer it takes. And they were terrified. Death by snake strangulation is just as terrifying BUT it takes my adult female to constrict a jumbo ASF in 2 minutes! 2 minutes seems a lot better then suffering for 20 minutes. Again, that is my opinion. I have never been suffocated by C02 or by a snake so how the hell am I supposed to know. I use my opinion and I am educated by science.

When I fed my first live (someone sold me a female claiming she was on F/T... not, liar. Never went to that breeder again), so I had no choice but to feed live to her. I felt SOOO bad for the mouse. But then I realized how quick it was and now I swear by it. I do not euthanize my own feeders any longer because it is actually makes me feel worse then it did when a snake did it for me. My 20 minute killing sucked compared to my snakes 2 minute killing. And regardless, no matter what I feed my snakes, they were once alive, frozen or otherwise and it is something all of us keepers must understand.

You can definitely have an opinion about live feeding, but DO NOT post anything that is your opinion and start arguing about it because your opinion is better then everyone else's, in your opinion. It is a fact that snakes get harmed but it is NOT a fact that it happens ALL THE TIME! If one or two photos makes you uncomfortable with it, then that is up to you but go on to you tube and google live feeding. There will be hundreds of videos and not one snake will be harmed in any video which I think it definitely trumps your 2 photos of harmed snakes.

OKay, blah blah blah... I'm do now.