Veg*ans and maggots?!
Say your cat/dog had stowed a piece of fish/rotten meat away and it was now infested with maggots.. or your inside rubbish bin got infested somehow.. how would you deal with it?
Would you kill them, throw them out into an outside rubbish bin, or *shudder* relocate them somewhere?
I'm a vegan, and dont get me wrong, I love all animals, great and small, furry or scaled, I dont eat honey and I adore and respect insects... but I had to deal with the situation today. (my cat had hidden a bowl with sardines in it where I wouldn't normally have seen it) I could barely look at them without wanting to yack all over the place... I ended up throwing them in the big outside bin. *shudders violently* I figure they'd be happy there.
Just wondering what you veg*ans would have done in a simalar/same situation.
Answers: How do you, as a veg*an, deal (or would deal) with maggots?
Say your cat/dog had stowed a piece of fish/rotten meat away and it was now infested with maggots.. or your inside rubbish bin got infested somehow.. how would you deal with it?
Would you kill them, throw them out into an outside rubbish bin, or *shudder* relocate them somewhere?
I'm a vegan, and dont get me wrong, I love all animals, great and small, furry or scaled, I dont eat honey and I adore and respect insects... but I had to deal with the situation today. (my cat had hidden a bowl with sardines in it where I wouldn't normally have seen it) I could barely look at them without wanting to yack all over the place... I ended up throwing them in the big outside bin. *shudders violently* I figure they'd be happy there.
Just wondering what you veg*ans would have done in a simalar/same situation.
Yikes...tough one. I think they're probably happy there in the outside bin. They seem to thrive happily in dark, dirty, yucky places like that. I wouldn't have thrown them in the grass or something because I wouldn't want some poor animal to come along and eat the food in the tin...they might get sick. I think like you, I can't hurt a fly. I think you did the right thing. :o)
There maggots for cryin out loud!!! throw them any where and they will live to become flies. They are gross and sick!!
Good question, I would've taken them to the garden, if I had one, because maggots are great for eating rotten things and leaving living plants and other living cellular organisms alone and then they go away.
Since I don't have a garden though and I live in the middle of the "concrete jungle" I would've taken them to the bin. Hopefully they will be later transported to the dump where they can have a field day!!
I would have actually released them in the garden, as I do with household cockroaches.
There are only two living creatures that I happily kill (although I still do feel small pangs of guilt) and that is mosquitoes and ticks.
The mosquitoes transmit devastating life threatening diseases to humans and the ticks can transmit devastating life threatening diseases to my cats.
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will not do that. that is violent,
Yep, this happened to me too once - makes you cringe doesn't it? I threw mine in the large bin too (I don't have a garden only a paved yard). They'll go to landfill & resume their normal life cycle of becoming flies anyway - & do a bit of composting along the way.
eeewwww hasn't happened to me, but I think I would have put them in the garbage out side. I just hope garbage collection day is coming up soon.
i would have dont the exact same thing - they would be fine there - 'shudder'. i dont personally like maggots, they make my skin crawl. oops.... i'm a vegitarian, i 4got.lol
only meant to have a look.sry
Not out of any warm fuzzy feelings for maggots, but I would have tossed them in the compost. They would help break down all the produce in there.
In a couple of days, they will turn into flies and fly away, so it doesn't much matter where you put them.
I grew up in the country and worked on farms and at animal hospitals....I have seen some of the most disgusting things, but the worst by far is a maggot infested anything (bleh, did you know that animals can have maggots? If a say, cat has a laceration on its back, and the cat can't get at it to lick and clean the cut, the cat can get infested with maggots....I've seen this). {{my husband has forbidden me to ever talk about my days at the animal hospital, and this is why}}
I don't know what it is about them, but the give me the creeps...you did the right thing...and even if you had tried to kill them, I don't know if you could have...they are really hard to kill...so I hear.
Thanks for the nice morning thoughts lol
They were probably just as happy in the garbage bin. It is a warm moist, dark environment with plenty of food sources. You probably did those maggots a favor.
I think you did the right thing. Never kill without a real good reason.
Heres a better idea...
If your baby had a poisonous creature in their crib, would the vegan parent kill the poisonous creature to save their child from being bitten or stung, or would they let the creature "peacefully" dwell with their child? What if the parent didn't have time till capture the creature in a jar...would that be inhumane? Is it inhumane for a vegan to have an exterminator get rid of roaches or mice in their homes? Is it inhumane for a vegan to even drive a car that would kill insects flying in the air, with their windshields? Please, you all get so carried away with these stupid questions of yours.
Sell them to the bait store.