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• tilefan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  capybara get eaten in the wild all the time. average lifespan of a wild one is 4 years, and the primary cause of death is predation. they can live 10 years in captivity

  their main form of defense is reproducing about as quickly as rabbits. they are sometimes competition for grazing land, but South Americans usually farm them if they’re a pest, rather than exterminating them, as they are very good meat animals. the Catholic Church classifies them as fish, so the more Catholic of community is, the more of them they’re eating (Catholics aren’t allowed to eat meat on friday, and somebody along the way decided fish weren’t meat. it wasn’t unusual to write the Vatican with a description vague enough to get something declared a fish; both the capybara and beaver were classified as fish because the people submitting the request just emphasized the amount of their lives they spend in the water), and there’s a medicinal grease produced from their skin that they use like petroleum jelly.

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    but South Americans usually farm them if they’re a pest, rather than exterminating them, as they are very good meat animals

    As a South American… Eww! Are you getting your facts from ChatGPT?

    Catholics aren’t allowed to eat meat on friday

    Again, as somebody that was grown catholic, where are you getting that from?

    Mostly large snakes and jaguars eat them. Otherwise, nothing is really a danger.

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    • Kitathalla@lemy.lol ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Again, as somebody that was grown catholic, where are you getting that from?

      Then, like most catholics in the wild, you don’t have much grasp of the tenets of the religion. It’s weird that I’m the only one in my family who actually remembers anything from the catechism classes, but it seems standard in my see (that I’m not a part of anymore, but when I was forced to attend mass and such) that no one has any idea of the various positions of the faith espoused by the church. Catholicism is one of the interesting christian sects because it actually has a long history of ‘reasoning’ its way to the conclusions that shape the beliefs, and its sort of sad that the average person claiming catholicism as their religion knows so little of it.

      Anyway, back to the original point: No meat on Fridays has been a thing for a very long time, in the actual annals of the religion’s leaders. Go look at the council of Trent and their declarations. For the philosophy of it, read Thomas Aquinas and his (now) laughable idea: The idea that fish don’t inherit original sin because they don’t have sex. For the practical reasons, go read the NPR article that details some of the history behind it.

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    • tilefan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      the first fact came from the Bristol Zoo, and the second from Archbishop Bernard Hebda.

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      • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        You might want to check that first source again.

        About the second one… WTF? You’d wish to consult your Catholic traditions from some Catholic authority. Not whatever that is. But the first paragraph is almost normal, stick to it.

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