Shadraxian Food Dragon

"You try feeding a species as large as ours with humans and other non-DragonKin!" Shadraxian responding to a Sealachan's comment about how raising DragonKin solely for food is barbaric.
Shadraxian Food Dragons (SFD) or Food Dragons are a species of unintelligent DragonKin of about 40ft in length (Snout to Tail) for males and 60ft for females raised by the Shadraxians to be a food source for female Shadraxians.
==Overview==
Native to Shadraxia, SFDs have long been bred and devoured by female Shadraxians due to most non-DragonKin life being too small to feed a female Shadraxian unless in massive quantities. Even before they were actually bred by the Shadraxians, SFDs were used as a food source by Shadraxian females.
Born large (25ft) and growing rapidly on a diet of grass and mammals such as horse-like creatures similar to those male Shadraxians eat, a SFD will reach optimum size in just 1.5-2.5 years (depending on gender, females are larger but take a little longer to grow to full size).
Millennia of being bred by the Shadraxians for food has all but guaranteed the SFD will never achieve more than animal levels of intelligence, with the average modern SFD being incapable of intelligible speech. Even SFDs raised as a person and not cattle by non-Shadraxians have been incapable of intelligible speech beyond mimicry and even then only in rare cases. 
==Ethics==
While it is considered normal by the Shadraxians to raise and eat SFDs, many other DragonKin species, especially the Sealachans, feel that raising DragonKin solely to be food is barbaric. This is likely due to the fact that DragonKin consider themselves superior to other types of species (Mammals, Reptiles, Avians, etc) and to see one of their kind raised as nothing but a food source is a little disturbing. Shadraxians do not see their Food Dragons this way, thinking of them as a food source to be grown and consumed much like a plant or other livestock.
Category:Species
Category:Shadraxians