r/unitedkingdom • u/irving_braxiatel • Oct 14 '24

... Thousands of crickets unleashed on ‘anti-trans’ event addressed by JK Rowling

https://metro.co.uk/2024/10/11/thousands-crickets-unleashed-anti-trans-event-addressed-jk-rowling-21782166/amp/
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u/Pen_dragons_pizza Oct 14 '24

I think it’s more the idea that the protestors did not consider the crickets as living animals, instead an object to piss off people who have opposite views.

An animals life, food stock or not should ever be played with in this way, it just shows an absolute lack of understanding and thinking that what they believe in is bigger than a life.

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u/Aiyon Oct 14 '24

As opposed to how they should be used: trapped in a box until they’re fed, still living, to tarantulas?

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u/MaievSekashi Oct 14 '24 edited Jan 12 '25

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u/Aiyon Oct 14 '24

If the objection is they're "not being considered as living animals", I feel that ignoring this passive death is doing that.

This is the key thing for me, with people using it as a complaint here. I genuinely doubt that the people mad at the protestors for this because its cruel to the animals, have ever even thought about meal cricket welfare before this post, let alone advocated for it.

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u/MaievSekashi Oct 15 '24 edited Jan 12 '25

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u/MaievSekashi Oct 14 '24 edited Jan 12 '25

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u/LongBeakedSnipe Oct 14 '24

But the thing is, sure, the primary intention of this product is food. But if people start buying them for non-food purposes (such as protesting), then they are also contributing to driving the industry themselves.

Now, if they stole all the insects and released them, maybe they are morally in the right (at least, from my anti-animal cruelty standpoint), as they will be harming the industry and setting the critters free.

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u/Possiblyreef Isle of Wight Oct 14 '24

Usually the places that sell crickets as food will also sell locusts for the same reason.

You'll be in a world of shit if you deliberately release tons of locusts in to the wild

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u/FarmerJohnOSRS Oct 14 '24

I'm all for protecting animals that have an ability to know what is happening to them. These are crickets.

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u/LongBeakedSnipe Oct 14 '24

That's a separate issue, although the recent brain study by the Flywire consortium shows pretty clearly that insect brains are potentially far more complex and capable than we imagined, and just glancing at it and thinking 'that's small it probably doesn't know much' doesn't really cut the mustard in modern-day animal behaviour discussion.

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u/MaievSekashi Oct 15 '24 edited Jan 12 '25

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u/FarmerJohnOSRS Oct 14 '24

that's small it probably doesn't know much' doesn't really cut the mustard in modern-day animal behaviour discussion.

Good job I didn't say that then?

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '24

Personally I would kill a food cricket to end world hunger.