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Submitted ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨GreenDust@lemmings.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent peacock meal?

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    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      10/10 reference. Would meme again.

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    • Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      GET YOUR HAND OFF MY PENIS

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      • mycodesucks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I see you know your judo well.

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    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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      • Horsecook@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        In my state it is illegal to kill a turkey, outside of designated hunting season w/ license in designated hunting areas.

        Wild turkeys. I really doubt turkey farms are effectively outlawed in your state.

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      • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        But what if it’s your domestic turkey you raised from an egg and fed all its life on your farm?

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  • Kirp123@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I grew up in an Italian community where peacocks and peahens were commonly raised for food - exactly like chickens are now raised by hipsters.

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    • mienshao@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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      • Kirp123@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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    • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They are quite common livestock all over the world.

      And exotic to Florida, so calling them “endangered” is completely meaningless.

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    • borderstolutenfolk@lemmy.wtf ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      But would a pet affect this? Isn’t endangered status about wild animals?

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      • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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      • Kirp123@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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      • Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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    • jve@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.”

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      • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        animal cruelty laws are a good thing, but this is bullshit, why are some animals allowed to have rights, while others allowed to be butchered and eaten?

        I’m not vegan, but there should be a consistent framework.

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      • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        To be fair, from what I’ve seen if peacock behaviors, they’re dicks.

        Animals being dicks is not a good enough reason to kill and eat them. They should also be tasty.

        Is peacock tasty? I’ve never had any. Can we ask the guy in the news story?

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    • starik@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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    • gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, I feel like every other park I’ve ever been to has had a peacock…

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      • West_of_West@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You haven’t lived until a peacock tries to steal your sandwich in a park

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      • SillyDude@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        There are groups of feral peacocks where I grew up.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      they are? we got a town overrun with invasive peafowl near here and we just want to kill them.

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  • kokesh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    … and what?

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  • neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Here’s the new story about it: wtsp.com/…/67-d216ccbf-d32a-462c-be3d-65c41907095…

    1. There’s nothing wrong with eating peafowl. People have been eating them for centuries and still do.

    2. 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.

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    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ah, so standard Halal practice, which is savage animal cruelty with a devoted PR department.

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      • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        excact same with Kosher laws

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      • zarathustrad@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It’s ok as long as enough other people share the same delusion.

        Yet, If I tell them the voices in my head told me to watch the light drain from my prey’s eyes as it dies before I eat…

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    • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Pretty sure halal and kosher meat requires that the animals bleed out.

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    • cheers_queers@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨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?

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      • KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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      • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah, I think decapitation is fine. I think this guy just cut their carotid, and hung them up to die.

        Not a great way to go, honestly.

        I’m familiar with some butchering methods, but I’m no butcher. I think that the most common practices in large butcher shops involve either decapitation, or a way of instantly killing the animal. Pretty sure they use a type of bolt “gun” for bovines that basically crushes their skull.

        It seems like it is brutal, but their death is so instant, it is considered to be humane.

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      • Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I think they mean the guy slit the birds neck and then let it drain, instead of fully beheading it.

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    • crank0271@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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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    • RattlerSix@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • barnaclebutt@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The Romans used to eat them like turkeys.

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    • Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Turkeys used to eat peacocks? Well, I never.

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      • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        They still do, the Romans used to.

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  • roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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…

    www.civitekflorida.com/ocrs/county/51/

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  • Derpenheim@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ohhh theyre endangered. I was baffled at what charges he could possibly be facing.

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    • mienshao@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      See comment above — not endangered

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    • starik@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Eating bushmeat spreads disease

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  • Denjin@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I heard it was a sick peacock.

    Allegedlys.

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    • West_of_West@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Still, that’s a two man job

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  • voidsignal@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    looking at the mug shot, I suspect a little fucking too

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  • deHaga@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    His nickname is Drew

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    • everett@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      R.I.P. Drew The Peacock.

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  • Redstone1@lemmings.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Piece of shit speciest!

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  • Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    recipe for redressed fire breathing peacock if anyone is interested

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    People give even fewer fucks if it’s a plant or fungus

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    • CADmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      How many plants had to DIE for your stupid salad?

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  • CADmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There exist pretty chickens, though.

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  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Maybe hes an ancient Roman time traveller?

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