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Do you think reptile live feeding is animal abuse?
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I'd say if you really really cared about animals, you wouldnt keep one in the first place. Ofc it's far less cruel to keep an animal in a vivarium or a house and treat it well, than to give it as a prey to another animal. But you would not have the dilemna if it was free in the first place.
I also don't think the "it's natural" argument is logically speaking a correct counter argument for the cruelty problem. Death, disease and suffering are natural, but it can still be cruel for us to let them happen. Ofc there is a whole gradient of "cruelty" here, from not intervening to prevent suffering on an animal to inflicting it on purpose for no reason. But I think what matters is not that it's natural, it's that is a choice of us to do or not to do.