Reply #33: Whether it's songbirds or potatoes, it all comes out as shit, so that argument is irrelevant. [View All]

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Shitting is actually not pointless. It serves a vital function for both us critters and also the environment. At any rate:

Furthermore, you have never tasted a songbird, so you can not say that it has no value in terms of flavor, nor no value in terms of a source of fowl. As a matter of fact, one reason (among several) why the aforementioned passenger pigeons went extinct was because their flesh was pleasant-tasting in contrast to other birds. Consider the taste/texture difference between duck and turkey - one fatty and distinctly flavored, the other dry and bland.

As I said before, if it could be shown that this cull threatened the species, then yes, it should be condemned. However, as someone else pointed out, 1M is actually down from 10M/year which was the cull during the 90's.