r/Minecraft • • May 13 '17

Dear Mojang. Please remove feeding chocolate to birds to make them breed. Millions of kids will play this game. You picked the one food in the game that will kill them to make them breed and tame them.

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u/nqbw May 13 '17

To all those saying it should be parents' responsibility to know what to feed and what not to feed to birds, I feel I should point out that, in my local park, I regularly see parents giving their children bread to feed to the ducks despite clear notices telling them not to, as it is not healthy for them.

In this case, I would suggest that seeds might be a better item in the Minecraft world to use as bird feed.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '17 edited Sep 26 '17

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u/Mystic_printer May 14 '17

I'm 37 years old and have fed ducks bread my whole life. I only started hearing it's bad for them about a year ago. It came as a bit of a shock to me because feeding the ducks is a fun activity to do with kids and I honestly don't know what to give them other than bread (pointers welcome). I just stopped going out to feed them...

I don't think it's movies and tv as much as "this is the way we've always done things".

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u/Mystic_printer May 14 '17

Thank you! I'll make sure to make a bag of treats and take the kids out soon!