OH MY GOD!! STOP SHOWING THAT!!

[pclu2004]

Am I the only one who is totally upset and grossed out by the news media showing the murder and disection of that young giraffe over and over.
It's bad enough that the zoo in Denmark killed it and fed it's body to lions, but they did it in front of a lot of children. And the media shows it over and over. I just want to cry.

Comments

[7wildwaysup]

I'm glad I've missed that so far... I can't even handle watching wildlife shows where other animals kill each other. Why couldn't they just donate it to another zoo? It seems so senseless...

Later Darling ~ Kathleen

[pclu2004]

A number of other zoos offered to take the giraffe, but the Copenhagen zoo refused all offers.

[gaedhal]

I've turned the channel THREE TIMES when they insisted on showing this story.
Disgraceful.

[pclu2004]

They claimed they were using this as a "teaching experience" for children. That makes it even more disgraceful.

[mandagrammy]

I saw an item on that event on Facebook. I didn't click on the video because what little I read told me I wouldn't like it. After reading your description, I thank heaven I chose to avoid it. And you are right, the worst part is doing that in front of children. How terribly unforgivable.

[beauty_forashes]

And you are right, the worst part is doing that in front of children. How terribly unforgivable.

Why? See my comment below yours. Trying to shield the little darlings from the natural order of things is not healthy, IMO. No wonder kids today are more familiar with their iPhones and psych medication than with nature as it really is.

[pclu2004]

I know. What exaactly did it teach the children exposed to this?

[beauty_forashes]

Having spent a lot of my childhood on a farm in a rural area, and with all of the men in the US half of my family hunting each season, I don't see anything wrong with children learning the facts about where our meat comes from. It's the natural order of things that some animals are killed for food, whether by animals or by humans. Why do people insist on keeping their kids in a bubble, pretending nature is all fluffy bunny rabbits, and what planet do they live on anyway? Life on this planet is exceedingly brutal when it comes to the food chain, and we have to take it as it is, IMO, and not live in denial or keep kids ignorant. I saw a pig being butchered on a farm for the first time when I was a year or two old - it was a fact of life and nobody tried to pack me in cotton fluff, or displayed fear that I might witness it. It was what it was, and even at that age, I was fine with it and understood it's the natural order of things. I shake my head over parents who live in denial and think it's good (or natural) to let kids think meat

[pclu2004]

I have no problem with children learning where their food comes from or exposing them to the brutal facts of life. I watched my grandmother swing chickens by the head to break their necks, etc.
But to take small children (they looked to be first or second grade) into a zoo to watch a non food animal shot in the head and then cut up, pieces thrown to lions, who fought over the remains somehow doesn't strike me as a learning experience. They could have taken them to a farm.

[beauty_forashes]

Sorry, I don't see any difference between a pig being shot in the head and cut up and a giraffe. What's the difference? And none of the kids looked upset from what I saw, on the contrary, they looked as interested as I would have been at that age. Kids today are way overprotected where they shouldn't be (e.g., violence being part of nature, sex, nudity, etc.), and underprotected where they really should be protected (e.g., bullying in schools). It's a de-natured society much of the western world lives in, and that's not healthy.

[connorblond]

Non-food animal?
Uh? Not wanting to burst your bubble here, but in Africa the giraffe is a food-animal. And not just for animal predators. It might not be kept on farms, but yes, it is hunted for food, too.

[spike7451]

No you are most certainly not the only one upset and grossed out!!!

[pclu2004]

Quite a learning experience for little kids.

[spike7451]

One they could well do without in my opinion!!