Humane rat distributor?

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I really like Perfect Prey.com - their f/t rats are always clean and don't show signs of over population like barbering (over grooming from stress that causes hair loss or skin sores) or having urine / feces on their feet and tails, and no signs ff URI like crusty noses or eyes.
They are a little more pricey than some of the online feeder providers but I've been very happy with the quality - also their "size breakdown" is a little more varied than sm/ med/ large which gives more options in my opinion

Back when I first bought from them I emailed to find out how the rats were processed and they use the carbon dioxide method, which leaves no chemical residue for your snake and is one of the faster ways to dispatch mass rodents with as little stress as possible.

I'm sure for the rats its not a completely stress free method, but its better than the way most of our own food (chickens / pigs /etc) are dealt with.

Yeah I second PerfectPrey. They seem to be the most humane option from what I have researched (I am vegan and looked into this a lot before we got a snake, lol). Their site explains how they raise and "dispatch" them and the mice we have gotten from them look great. I think it's important to support more humane business practices when you have a pet that must eat other animals. Paying for shipping can be as much as the product itself, but because buying snake food is such an infrequent expense (for us anyway, and for people who only have a few snakes), it doesn't bother me.