tsatske
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Not raised specially no - because it could be deemed as cruelty to animals by certain authorities. It's called being aware of the inherent risks involved just like playing with anything.
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I have to be honest here. Although I can imagine a few Animal Rights type peeps who might make such complaints - I can not imagine any Authoritative Agency that is going to spend time trying to control 'cruelty' to 6 or 8 legged animals. Biogtry? - sure, but, honestly.
Look at what we regularly do to those particular animals, and I think it will tell you that no agency is interested in their well being. Without goverment, or, for the most part, sociaetal interference, we step on them to crush them with the intent of killing them. WE buy poisons to kill them, we buy devices for less than a buck with which to squash them and kill them. We hire proffesionals to kill them for us. The only objection I've ever heard of being raised by an offical to such practices is rather the poisons in quesiton are safe for human children, at certain locations - say a school or daycare. Otherwise, the goverment does not interfere.
For a buck you can buy a cage to keep insects you might capture in - these can soar upwards all the way to ten bucks for the fancy ones. For ten bucks you can buy a special cage to raise and keep captive small insects, such as ants.
For less than a buck, you can buy insects at your local bait store. You can stick them, still alive and wiggling, on a hook and throw them into the water to in order to entice other animals to impaling themselves with a sharp hook, so that you can take them home and eat them (YUM! Anyone want to donate some fresh fish this way?) - or you can feed them, still alive, to other pets you keep - of you can stick them in a little jar and send them off to school with your child for show and tell (mine had a first grade science experement of that order)
People catch insects for the specific purpose of sticking pins in them to display them. Theoretically, the collectors catch the animals, then put them in a jar with a cotton ball of rubbing alcohol to euthinse them. But, just last week our local library wrapped up the contest it had over the summer, asking school kids, (out for the summer and therefore needing some nice, educational activities) to produce such displays, and the librarian mentioned during the awards ceromony that some collections had come to her with a few of the pinned bugs still wiggling. Yet, no animal control officer visited either or local library, or the homes of the six year olds who so cruelly pinned the un-euthinazed critters. In school, children regularly disect worms, (dead ones) and experemint on live ones - cutting them in half, zapping them with electricity, ect. Children are also known to fry ants and other small animals with magnifying glasses, collect lightning bugs, spiders and all manner of ther creepy crawlies in jars with insufficent air wholes, and then forget to feed and water them, pour water strait in and drown them, or leave the jar in a window where they fry when the sun comes out.
I personally catch the crickets who inhabit my house in a dixie cup when they get caught in my bathtub, and release them out my back door - but I am pretty sure most people just wash them down the drain.
And, in fact, by those who eat bugs, which are not yet raised and sold commercially in America, they do raise their bugs captive in just the manner they describe, for exactly those reasons.
However, I do agree that most people who just want to play with them aren't going to go to the trouble. But I do think that insisting that they do so might be very wise, indeed. Although, I'd be careful of the really bad ones - the ones you mentioned, ect. Even if they are raised in a clean enviroment, the 'starters' have to come from the wild. So, do some research and find out which diseases are cleared out by a couple of generations of clean living - and which are not. Cause, I'm thinking for lyme disease, the answer might be 'not'. But, I really don't know for sure.
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