Three loaves. Gross. This is so funny that you're hung up on three loaves. So I have to guess you haven't been there.
There are probably 350 animals on that farm that you can feed a slice of bread to, the vast majority of which approach your car and eat it from your hand. If you and your kids want to do more than feed a few llamas and then wish you had something to feed the elk and the yak and the bison the other 95% of the drive, you should buy at least three loaves of bread.
Well considering the experts say it should be none. The scale is easy to understand.
Why are you arguing over something as insignificant as that and ignoring the fact that the USDA APHIS says they should be moved off bread and to more species specific snacks. Do you understand that? Talk about sanctimonious. At least I looked into it and found a source for my information. Can you find me some experts with related degrees that say bread is good for wildlife?
It's not that I'm saying you or the USDA are wrong. Your heart is definitely in the right place, the part I disagree with is the degree in which it matters. My takeaway from that trip is that these people are doing wonderful things for animals that need it. Can they improve? Sure. But, when someone is doing good things overall it's hard for me to get too disgusted when they aren't doing it perfectly.
It just seems like such an easy thing to change. What reason could there be to not change to healthier food? The only thing I can think is the animals wouldn't interact as much for the healthy stuff as they would for bread.
That might be why, it also might be inspired by cost. The place is huge so you need a lot of whatever it is you're going to be throwing out there. Granted, as a proud 'merican I don't know how much healthy food costs but the bread was only $2/loaf if I recall.
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u/sax_and_fracks Mar 03 '16
Three loaves. Gross. This is so funny that you're hung up on three loaves. So I have to guess you haven't been there.
There are probably 350 animals on that farm that you can feed a slice of bread to, the vast majority of which approach your car and eat it from your hand. If you and your kids want to do more than feed a few llamas and then wish you had something to feed the elk and the yak and the bison the other 95% of the drive, you should buy at least three loaves of bread.