We at least don’t boil mammals alive, or bake them alive. If we find that crickets suffer from these things, we can find more human ways of killing them.
A bolt gun to a cattle’s head is instant death. We can’t go using tiny bolt guns on crickets, but perhaps asphyxiation or something. Asphyxiation is a painless form of death for mammals, as long as they aren’t breathing excess carbon dioxide. The panic and pain that comes from not breathing is due to carbon dioxide buildup in the blood, not from a lack of oxygen. So maybe that’s an avenue to explore if we want to lower cricket suffering.
I went through a lot of searches on euthanasia for small insects when my pet spider was struggling to get around and stopped eating.
Basically, all the methods are slow, painful and scary… Except for one. Crushing is near instant, faster than they can register pain, just a spider one moment and a smear the next. It’s probably the toughest way for you, but it’s the fastest, least painful, and least stressful way for them.
I hope I don’t ever have to euthanize one of my spiders, as the crush method does seem to be the most humane way to go about it. I can’t imagine having to do that with a 10" tarantula
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago *humane
Yeah, just a typo
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago I just thought it was funny, humans sure know how to kill things.
We absolutely boil or bake mammals and other living things alive, and we do even worse things to them. Whole lives of suffering from issues from being bred for specific things to horrific living conditions and then killed in any manner of inhumane ways.