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Both the people running these shitty operations and the people paying money to visit and get photo ops with cubs. Dozens of big cats in feed lots basically.
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Ideally I’d like there to be enough wilderness for natural ecosystems to flourish, but I’ve made my peace with well-run zoos, staffed by biologists who both care and invest research effort at adequate scale. Amateurs running sentimental zoos of only charismatic megafauna, no.
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For all it’s horrors, factory farming of livestock at least has a defensible purpose: food. Wild animals you don’t eat but just raise for narcissism (or just as bad, for exotic food/insane medicine as in China)... something really ugly about that.
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