Quote Originally Posted by truthsdeceit View Post
You eat meat?

"There has been criticism of the methods of preparation, herding, and killing within slaughterhouses, and in particular of the speed with which the slaughter is conducted. Investigations by animal welfare and animal rights groups have indicated that a proportion of animals are being skinned or gutted while alive and apparently conscious. There has also been criticism of the methods of transport of the animals, who are driven for hundreds of miles to slaughterhouses in conditions that often result in crush injuries and death en route." (this is from wikipedia, not the best source I know but it does happen)

I'm not saying it's okay!!! It's very BAD!!!

I'm very very against animal cruelty.. I hate to see any animal suffer. I breed my own feeders and become very attached to my breeders so I try to minimize the pain when I p/k.

I just wanted to point out that people are using the 'snakes got to eat' excuse which is valid. They do have to eat. And so do people. The only reason we have problems with it is because we are here to witness it. I still eat meat, even after watching horrid peta videos about slaughter houses.

Ergo I don't have a problem with my snakes eating meat I've killed myself. This way I know how it died. And i know how it lived, all my feeders get the best of care and sometimes love/handling, while growing up.

Just my two cents, but it has been said 2cents isn't worth much. *shrug*

I hope I haven't steped over any lines here.
I'm a vegetarian.
I know plenty about it, and that's why my point is pretty valid.
Here's the difference. Snakes have to have a diet of meat. People DO NOT have to have a diet of meat to get all the proper nutrients, but that is a discussion for another topic.

I am very against animal cruelty as well, which is why I think it's important for you to consider humane resources to kill your snakes. I use CD quite a bit, and I don't like it. I try to use CO2 when I can to get a large amount of mice/rats killed and frozen at one time. I also have a good friend (of my mothers) who taught me how to CD properly, as she used to work in a lab where they had to kill mice and rats by CD.