Biological rodent control initiative Owls Eat Rats was crowned this year’s winner of The Hatch: Taronga Accelerator Program, taking home a massive $50,000 cash prize.

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    4 days ago

    Dead rats is not uplifting news but rats not dying slow deaths by poison is uplifting news, but owls being enslaved to fix human problems is not uplifting but developing a new natural solution to fix an old natural problem is uplifting news. Sos moral error 404 help!

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      4 days ago

      Where are you seeing owls being enslaved in the article? It says the initiative builds and expands habitats for owls.

      And even if they were being enslaved, that’s better than minefields of (artificial) poison in our (natural) environment. Even if you’re a vegan, there’s enslaved hordes of plants behind your survival. It’s always what’s better.

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        3 days ago

        Where are you seeing owls being enslaved in the article?

        To be honest I only read the title, bumped into a paywall when i clicked the link and couldn’t be bothered to put more effort in it.

        And even if they were being enslaved, that’s better than minefields of (artificial) poison in our (natural) environment.

        I do agree on this.

        Even if you’re a vegan, there’s enslaved hordes of plants behind your survival.

        But not on this, although i am not gonna argue why slave animals is a thing and slave plants is not a thing.

        It’s always what’s better.

        You’re right, it’s finding the balance - that was the topic of my comment basically.

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          3 days ago

          Argh, I chose this AMP article over one that displayed properly because it didn’t seem to have a paywall. Guess that was just my browser extension. I’ll see what I can do.