Huh, apparently peacocks are endangered. So probably that’s why?
I honestly thought they were quite common as livestock but I guess I was wrong.
Double standards
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Kirp123@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
jve@lemmy.world 25 minutes ago
probably that’s why?
Nope!
He was charged with animal cruelty, probably because of the wacky letter he sent to his neighbor, and that he did it “out of spite.”
marcos@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
They are quite common livestock all over the world.
And exotic to Florida, so calling them “endangered” is completely meaningless.
borderstolutenfolk@lemmy.wtf 3 hours ago
But would a pet affect this? Isn’t endangered status about wild animals?
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
If the animal is endangered you still get dinged even of they are you pets. The laws are written as such to prevent this and things like getting an endangered or threatened species as a “pet” and then killing them to taxidermy.
Kirp123@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
No. It doesn’t really matter if the animals are wild or in captivity.
Under the ESA, it is unlawful to “take” any endangered or threatened animal species, which is broadly defined to include harassing, harming, pursuing, hunting, shooting, wounding, or killing.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Its to discourage people from capturing wild endangered species and raising them as pets. Making something a pet is as good as killing it in the wild.
mienshao@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
The common peacock, also called Indian peafowl (Pavo cristatus), seen in the pic above, is not endangered. Least concern in fact.
The Green peafowl (pavo muticus) is endangered, but I highly doubt the Florida man had/ate that species. Much harder to acquire—I’ve never even seen it at a zoo.
Kirp123@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
People get tigers and lions so I don’t think a peacock is much harder to acquire. Also according to Wikipedia:
The green peafowl is in demand for private and home aviculture and threatened by the pet trade, feather collectors and hunters for meat and targeted.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
they are? we got a town overrun with invasive peafowl near here and we just want to kill them.
gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
Yeah, I feel like every other park I’ve ever been to has had a peacock…
West_of_West@piefed.social 2 hours ago
You haven’t lived until a peacock tries to steal your sandwich in a park
SillyDude@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
There are groups of feral peacocks where I grew up.
starik@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
They are common livestock. People let them roam freely, and they’re dumb as rocks, so they’re always standing in the road.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
This. There is a colony of them up the road from me. Dumb as rocks and louder than they have any right to be.
barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
The Romans used to eat them like turkeys.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 50 minutes ago
Turkeys used to eat peacocks? Well, I never.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 39 minutes ago
They still do, the Romans used to.
neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
Here’s the new story about it: wtsp.com/…/67-d216ccbf-d32a-462c-be3d-65c41907095…
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There’s nothing wrong with eating peafowl. People have been eating them for centuries and still do.
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This guy was reportedly arrested for his slaughtering methods. I’m no butcher, but I believe the commonly accepted method of slaughter is to swiftly break the bird’s neck to ensure the death is quick. According to the news article, he cut the bird’s necks and let them bleed out which counts as animal cruelty. A person would theoretically get arrested for doing this to their pet/feeder chickens as well.
cheers_queers@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
thats crazy, i had no idea that would be considered animal cruelty. i grew up on a farm and have only ever seen the head chopped off but out of curioity, how is severing the spinal cord with an axe more inhumane than twisting the neck? logically speaking, the blood draining out has no effect on cognition, and what if theneck doesnt snap the first time?
KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 26 minutes ago
Honestly decapitation is more humane than a broken neck. The drop in BP is enough to cause immediate lights out, where as someone with a broken neck could very well have to suffocate to death inside their own bodies.
The blood pressure drop has a huge effect on cognition.
Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
I think they mean the guy slit the birds neck and then let it drain, instead of fully beheading it.
RattlerSix@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I think of the method this guy used as “The Sarah Palin method” because she once did a news interview while people were killing turkeys in the background that way.
crank0271@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Hanging the bird upside down, cutting its neck (specifically, the arteries that are in the neck) and letting it bleed out is standard practice. The blood drains quickly and they die within a few seconds. It sounds horrible if you haven’t seen it done but this is how many (most?) farmers do it.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I’ve seen aunties grab a chicken by the neck and just spin it around till the head comes off.
It sounds to me like the guy told the neighbor “stop feeding my birds, I’m going to slaughter them soon”, and the neighbors who had been feeding the birds without permission reported them?
Anyways. Peacocks are annoying as hell. Preposterously loud.
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roguetrick@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Nothing to do with endangered, dudes just a nut. Said he ate them out of spite. He’s got an impressive court history of brandishing firearms and DUI/driving suspended while DUI. cbsnews.com/…/florida-man-eats-pet-peacocks-dispu…
Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
Ohhh theyre endangered. I was baffled at what charges he could possibly be facing.
mienshao@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
See comment above — not endangered
starik@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Eating bushmeat spreads disease
Denjin@feddit.uk 3 hours ago
I heard it was a sick peacock.
Allegedlys.
West_of_West@piefed.social 2 hours ago
Still, that’s a two man job
deHaga@feddit.uk 3 hours ago
His nickname is Drew
everett@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
R.I.P. Drew The Peacock.
Redstone1@lemmings.world 2 hours ago
Piece of shit speciest!
voidsignal@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
looking at the mug shot, I suspect a little fucking too
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
There exist pretty chickens, though.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
People give even fewer fucks if it’s a plant or fungus
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
How many plants had to DIE for your stupid salad?
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Maybe hes an ancient Roman time traveller?
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent peacock meal?
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 25 minutes ago
there is probably a law about them being gamebrids or something.
in my state it is illegal to kill a turkey, outside of designated hunting season w/ license in designated hunting areas.
So if you go to the state park with a on orange fence with a gun in November, you’re good to kill them. But if you say, strangle one on your lawn in March, you will get written up on charges.