Grow Faster, Breed Sooner? (NOT POWER FEEDING)

[Bogertophis]

I'm unsure what you disagree with...I completely understand what different reasons are involved and I know what the motivating factors are. I know exactly what money does... Money blurs the truth, the goals, the results, the give a damns and all the 'ifs'.


He can't see any negative effects of what will happen in the future...Since we don't know the future long term results, there is no answer to the ifs.


This experiment does not have anything to do with giving a damn about the long term affects on the snakes. The goal was to find a way to make money faster and even if it kills the snakes after year 5 there is no downside as the breeder will have a viable male almost immediately... The motivation is known, the goal has been met and the long term results (ifs) will only carry as much weight as the ethics of the human involved. -And nothing against the breeder (I've never heard of him before this) but when money, ethics and humans are combined... I know how I'd place my bet.

You make some very good points...money is a pretty big motivator & all too often does a fine job of squashing ethics, & personally, I'll always feel better trying to duplicate the way things happen in the natural world. Of course, that also means I prefer what nature creates when it comes to genetics- While I cannot deny the "eye-candy" factor, in my gut I'm just not a fan of "morphs" & all that breeding for colors that don't exist & wouldn't survive in the wild, in part because in our crowded world there is a very real risk of losing those wild populations for all time. I'm just not comfortable saying 'natural selection' got it wrong & spending all our time going down that rabbit hole of "prettier" snakes that are actually genetic defects. There is a reason for how snakes evolved in the wild, how they eat & survive, and for how they look.