Instagram promotes Russian animal abusers merch
r/Instagram took this down immediately and banned me for posting this verbatim:
i have reported these Russians 5 times over the past 2 years and they still appear in my fyp, not to mention they are allowed to exploit this wild cat who is obese, overfed on camera instead of diet correction, is not allowed outside, and has been for years.
in the ice cream video, the captor (a wild caracal can have a caretaker at best, not an owner) is FORCE FEEDING him ice cream. watch the video, he is not interested at all, and she is smudging it on his face to trigger cleaning instinct so he's forced to lick it to clean his nostrils. disgusting and awful. these people are making millions selling merch, check the public traffic stats on their websites.
in other videos they feed him human dessert, cakes, fruit. i suppose if a carnivore is starved off meat it will eat anything eventually.
i have no idea how this is legal, even a rescue needs minimal living conditions, proper outdoor enclosure and diet.
even if legal in Russia with no animal cruelty laws (they have entertainment media channels on Telegram with uncensored animal torture videos that govt is allowing) - why are we allowing Russians to use the biggest Western media outlet to promote and monetize this treatment of protected species?
does it not undermine Western laws the same platform claims to abide?
i feel helpless and angry and i don't know what action i can take. we cannot get them jailed in Russia but surely giving them a platform to monetize abuse is fucking insane? it's like allowing chjld pvrn sales on Insta "because it's legal in Russia" like ???