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Originally Posted by Chris
Richard, in all honesty I think that says a lot more about pre-packaged, sanitised, Disneyfied Western civilisation than it does about the zoo. I think it is also worth pointing out that the staff at zoos spend every working day with these animals and get to know them and their personalities. I find it hard to believe they are being callous or insensitive. I think they have been as true to 'the wild' as possible, given the limitations of the zoo environment.
Lions are not cuddly creatures that escape their cages to go on jolly adventures in Madagascar. They are apex predators that catch other large mammals and tear them to shreds for dinner. I see no harm in showing our children that, so long as the zoo clearly communicates what is going on to parents who then have the choice whether to expose their kids to reality or not.
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The children were 3, 4 and 5 according to some news reports. I agree that children should be taught that the world is a cruel place more often than not (I learnt that from a VERY early age), but these ages seem too young to me to draw them into the harsh world of reality so soon.
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I really don't see the problem with giraffe meat being fed to lions. It's what lions eat in the wild, amongst other things. If the giraffe had to die, then a bolt to the head followed by a meal for Simba was a perfectly good way to do it. Lethal injection would have been a waste of a couple of tonnes of quality meat.
The problem you have here is that you think of the giraffe as a 'he'. The giraffe was a male 'it', an animal, not a human. Killing it before it died of old age is not an act of cruelty. Killing it with a bolt to the head is not a cruel method of killing an animal either, it is how much of the red meat on your dinner table meets its end.
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I don't regard animals as objects. They are living things with a soul, feelings, memories etc.
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I don't think it was cruel, it's not like he was alive when chucked to the lions, unnecessary maybe but not cruel.
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Or just healthy animals full stop
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...y-healthy.html
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Being cruel is not exclusive to living things.
How do you feel about killing humans that aren't much use to society?