• moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    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

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      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.

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        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.

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

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    3 months ago

    Maybe they should say, “don’t poison the birds,” because that’s what you’re actually doing.

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      Or “don’t feed the rats”, since that’s another worry when people feed birds.

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      Not sure! They are kinda new in my town, few years. Super interesting birds. Saw two of them stare down a teenage girl at the bus stop until she gave them part of her sandwich.

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        two of them stare[d] down a teenage girl at the bus stop until she gave them [her food]

        Wonder why the city wouldn’t want people feeding lil featherbirbs :)

        (For context I love birds enough to be concerned about doing right by them even though feeding them is fun and initially seems like must be benign if not actually helpful)

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          To make my crime less exciting, I can add that the rule isn’t about the birds really. We have recently developet rat problems, but: a lot of people feed birds by dumping sacks of bread which the rats eat. And on top of that some rat activists (yes) proceed to dump huge piles of food specifically for the rats but claim to the law that it’s bird food.

          So it’s “forbidden” only as a technicality to be able to prosecute rat feeders. Bird feeding, and especially direct feeding, they don’t care about.