This is quite similiar to choosing between owning a pig, feeding him up and eating him or buying frozen meat from Tesco. Either way a pig dies and gets up on my dinner table, but I prefer not to know what happens to that poor little piggy so I opt for Tesco.

So if I owned a snake, I would probably deem it more acceptable to buy frozen mice from a pet shop and feed that, rather than breed my own mice. Its just about morals at the end of the day.