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My city has a rule that forbids feeding birds (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 8 months ago (4 children)

there is actual potential harm when feeding birds, they can spread disease and become reliant on humans for food, if you want to do crimes pirate a game or something instead

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

People also often feed bread to birds, but bread is harmful to birds because it doesn't provide the nutrients they need while filling them up so that they don't go find more nutritious foods.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So apparently there was a campaign in the uk telling people to stop feeding bread to ducks, but when it worked loads of ducks died because you know. Less bread. Idk. Seems pretty silly to me just let people feed bread to ducks whatever man there are way more serious problems to worry about imo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Just feed them seeds instead.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

You wouldn't feed a bird.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And lot of the food just goes to rats, which just helps the rat population.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Rats?! I hate rats!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Wild rats are indeed a pest, but don't hate ALL rats. Fancy rats are great!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They are reliant on humans. Go follow some rules that aren't cruel.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago

It's arguably crueller to feed them chips than to feed them nothing.