There's a strong tendency among the generally-uninformed public to conflate "often done badly" with "can never be done well", and to proceed from there to "this is a dreadful thing we must ban". I am fundamentally against banning, ethically.
Specifically in the cases of many kinds of animals, it is hard (and in particular expensive) to do a good job, and a good job is a moving target, but when you say no one is allowed to do it, we end up losing the animals themselves.
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Date: 2017-10-23 10:04 pm (UTC)Specifically in the cases of many kinds of animals, it is hard (and in particular expensive) to do a good job, and a good job is a moving target, but when you say no one is allowed to do it, we end up losing the animals themselves.