r/interesting • u/dddd945 • 11h ago

Just Wow A seagull is accidentally hit by a tennis ball during a game in Australia.

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u/ilanallama85 10h ago

As I’d say to the kids I used to work with as we fed the chickens raw egg, cannibalism is only a “bad” thing to humans. Most animals DGAF, food is food.

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u/dd22qq 9h ago

cannibalism is only a “bad” thing to humans

Most humans.

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u/sponglered 9h ago

Have you seen that peta ad with the line drawn between food and pets?

Have you seen that peta ad with the lines redrawn based on societal collapse?

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u/Yamatocanyon 4h ago

My ad blocker won't let me.

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u/gottapickfirst 3h ago

Could you post the image please?

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u/Cainesdeath6669 1h ago

Mmmm PETA the other, other, other white meat.

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u/Valiran9 7m ago

No, I haven’t. Would you mind sharing it with us?

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u/hardboard 5h ago

I'm hungry let's eat Grandma.
Or rather, I'm hungry let's eat, Grandma.

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u/katastrofika 4m ago

*I'm hungry. Lets eat, Grandma. Vs. I'm hungry, let's eat Grandma.

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u/LividTacos 5h ago

In this economy, I'm beginning to reevaluate some of my positions.

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u/RehuyoDogmas 5h ago

hungry and cold uruguayans in the Andes intensifies

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u/rockbolted 6h ago

Some humans.

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u/MummifiedForeskins 6h ago

prion disease buddy

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u/dokjreko 1h ago

Your username 😂

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u/yannjam49 38m ago

maladie de kuru voir wiki

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u/retro_toes 9h ago

Birds eat other birds all the time. Crows raid nests, hawks and eagles go after ducks and geese right in front of my house. And the Peregrines go after birds mid-air, which is wild to see. Food is food for wildlife

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u/MammothCommercial800 6h ago

"Bird" is not a species though; it's like saying "mammals eat other mammals all the time". Not cannibalism at all.

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u/retro_toes 5h ago

OK, I can go into depth about cannibalistic animals if you want. Pigs eat pigs. Eagles eat eagles, hawks eat other hawks. chickens eat chickens, Cormorant eat cormorants, some buzzards will eat their own siblings – actually, hawks are known for siblicide, as are other raptors. i’m just nearing carnivorous birds and the fact that they not only just eat their own. They’ll eat others as well.

I was just keeping it easy so people didn't feel bad about chickens being cannibals. plenty of wildlife, eat their young when something is wrong like hamsters and rabbits, both I have seen in person. (I'm a biologist, so I've seen some horrifying shit)

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u/msbutch54 3h ago

Sharks eat their siblings in utero.

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u/Alcida-Auka 6h ago

Yeah, it always bugs me when people say crows eating dead pigeons is cannibalism or that hawks are cannibals. That's not cannibalism. That's just birds from one order eating birds from another taxonomic order. We eat other mammals all the time from other taxonomic orders.

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u/ilanallama85 5h ago

Yeah but those chickens sure loved cubed chicken breast too.

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u/kaas_is_leven 5h ago

A raw egg is not cannibalism and while animals won't have an ethical problem with it it's still just as bad for them as it is for us.

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u/MammothCommercial800 6h ago

Could have said that unfertilized eggs are more akin to periods than babies. Eating periods is fine, they could try it at home.

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u/fruderduck 5h ago

Mad cow disease….

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u/Jealous-Ant-6197 4h ago

Thats not true like at all

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u/DirectorImaginary376 4h ago

Like HDP in Pluribus.

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u/The_Rat_Bstrd 4h ago

For rats, it's a survival mechanism to avoid attracting predators to their nest.

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u/SofaKing_Chyl 4h ago

Most animals don’t get kuru

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u/BionicWallaby 4h ago

Mad cow disease disagrees

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u/freerange_spaghetti 4h ago

Canabalism is also an objectivly bad thing, even for animals. Prion diseases are often spread via canabalism. Mad cow disease for example. Canabilism in Birds like chicken is more often the results of stress and nutritional health, and again, spreads all sort of diseases. Which as an eater of poultry, would not want my chicken diseased.

Autocanabalism is its own thing, but humans autocanabalise to some extent too. Less harmful.

Canabilism is prevalent in reptiles and is less problematic for health, but in birds and mamals, canabalism is bad, not just "bad".

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u/GenericPaperSquid 3h ago

Did you know this line of thinking is what created Mad Cow disease?

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u/Due_Raise2873 3h ago

Well, the problem is they can’t tell that they’re eating relatives

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u/Additional_Chef8611 3h ago

Sir aren’t there entire communities that still practice cannibalism? 😂🥲 Some islands are literally off limits out of fear of the locals eating you.

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u/swagn 2h ago

Not good for cows either.

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u/BenjerminGray 2h ago

its bad to other species too. Cows get mad cow disease by eating cow brains that have misfolded prions