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[–] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 68 points 2 years 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

[–] wandermind@sopuli.xyz 24 points 2 years 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.

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years 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.

[–] KombatWombat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Just feed them seeds instead.

[–] OKRainbowKid@feddit.de 11 points 2 years ago

You wouldn't feed a bird.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] _dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] MadBob@feddit.nl 24 points 2 years ago

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