Dear people of the world. This might come as a slight shock, but the natural diet of animals that live in ponds and lakes in parks doesn’t consist of bread. I know, me too.
I realise it’s rather amusing and / or cute to watch fish, ducks, swans, turtles, etcetera swim over as you reach into the bag containing your loaf of processed-to-buggery white bread, but could you not?
Surprisingly, these animals have survived for a very large number with lots of zeros without dining on bread offerings. But, you may argue what about those turtles that ate pizza? Yes, good point, but they are comic book characters and therefore not real.
I’m not sure if people throw bread into ponds as a quasi-religious “loaves and fishes” type of thing, but I’m yet to see a pope or archbishop do it, so I doubt it.
If you want to commit carbocide by overdosing on the endless breadbasket at your favourite buffet restaurant, knock yourself out, that’s your choice, but the average pond-dwelling turtle doesn’t have one — so it would be really great if you could stop chucking bits of bread at him / her and our other watery friends.
Thank you.
©Steve Williams 2012