Hi,
I am just having an ethical dilemma and wondered what other people thought. Is it ethical to feed live mealworms to wild birds? I am a new vegan, and in previous years I have always done this. I love birds, although I also love invertebrates. Upon thinking about it I realise if it was a bowl of people I was putting out to be eaten then it would of course still be murder when they are killed, and so perhaps it is wrong. But then the wild birds need support, especially at this time of year when chicks may starve if there is not enough food. Live invertebrates are the preferred food as they are high in protein and also provide water-I realise they can eat seed too and do feed them seeds and peanuts. I also want to attract birds to my garden as they help me to grow my vegetables organically without having to use pesticides-this week the sparrows have been eating the greenfly that were damaging my plants. But is this right? It is part of the natural food chain, but how much is it ok to interfere with nature? Perhaps I should only observe nature without interfering but then humans have already done so much harmful interfering that I feel that trying to give some support back to the birds is necessary.
Hmmm...
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