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MMcGuire

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26. I copied and pasted from another reply I made.

Tue Feb 11, 2014, 08:48 AM

Feb 2014

I'd personally prefer to see animals not in zoos even less so in circuses. However due to humans being "sanitized" and as for going out in the wild we'd be on the endangered list. For me its about us having contact with animals, its hard enough to get people interested in endangered animals that they come into contact with never mind animals that they have not touched or seen. No further proof is needed that our most loved animals are the ones we share a space with (Cats, Dogs etc).

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Danish zoo kills healthy giraffe, feeds body to lions [View all] davidpdx Feb 2014 OP

Humans can be quite vile! nt/ RKP5637 Feb 2014 #1

look up "lions kill giraffe" on youtube. Lions can be quite vile too Pretzel_Warrior Feb 2014 #3

I've never realty understood all of the cruelty in life. n/t RKP5637 Feb 2014 #5

makes one think there's no benevolent force guiding it all, eh? Pretzel_Warrior Feb 2014 #6

Nope! I've never even remotely thought there was any benevolent guiding force, and RKP5637 Feb 2014 #14

hunger/survival UncleMuscles Feb 2014 #27

Did it, so gross, so cruel. n/t RKP5637 Feb 2014 #8

yep. if you want to be disturbed by the brutish and violence of nature, just google all that Pretzel_Warrior Feb 2014 #10

Lions do that sort of thing. nt Demo_Chris Feb 2014 #2

they turned this into a tourist attraction? dismembered the giraffe in front of niyad Feb 2014 #4

you need to read or listen to the actual report on what happened Pretzel_Warrior Feb 2014 #7

this part seemed pretty damned clear: niyad Feb 2014 #9

those parents chose to bring the children...and the children were interested and asking questions Pretzel_Warrior Feb 2014 #11

you can keep twisting and trying to defend this all you want. the whole niyad Feb 2014 #32

ok. that is your opinion. not shared by everyone. Pretzel_Warrior Feb 2014 #37

clearly shared by a good number of people, including here, and the thousands niyad Feb 2014 #41

They showed it on our National news last night, arthritisR_US Feb 2014 #15

Hey, "meat" is ugly before it's prettied up JanMichael Feb 2014 #19

I've added the NPR article davidpdx Feb 2014 #18

This is one of the few times I agree with Jack. By the way, arthritisR_US Feb 2014 #20

The zoo didn't want Russia to skate too easily to take the Gold in the 2014 Asshole Olympics n/t Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2014 #44

Dupe. nt arthritisR_US Feb 2014 #12

This message was self-deleted by its author davidpdx Feb 2014 #17

BOO!! blkmusclmachine Feb 2014 #13

If you had a hamburger, steak or chicken breast this week JanMichael Feb 2014 #16

True. And the giraffe lived a better life than our factory farmed cows and chickens, even in a zoo. cui bono Feb 2014 #21

I copied and pasted from another reply I made. MMcGuire Feb 2014 #26

To be truthful MMcGuire Feb 2014 #23

welcome to DU gopiscrap Feb 2014 #34

Cheers MMcGuire Feb 2014 #39

This is one of the 2naSalit Feb 2014 #22

Playing devils advocate here MMcGuire Feb 2014 #24

Hmmm 2naSalit Feb 2014 #40

There is not much I disagree with here. MMcGuire Feb 2014 #42

Indeed, engagement and education 2naSalit Feb 2014 #43

The Scottish Wild Cat or in Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic) Cat-fiadhaich. MMcGuire Feb 2014 #46

Amazing 2naSalit Feb 2014 #47

I think many zoos with money problems may see this as an "option" SoCalDem Feb 2014 #25

BARBARIC! democratisphere Feb 2014 #28

First off they didn't "euthanize" Marius Amaya Feb 2014 #29

Yeah, generally you don't "euthanize" healthy animals. justiceischeap Feb 2014 #30

Mother nature can be extremely barbaric. NCTraveler Feb 2014 #31

marius niyad Feb 2014 #33

Whether or not Crepuscular Feb 2014 #35

If they knew his genetic makeup would be incompatible with breeding, per EU regulations, Sheldon Cooper Feb 2014 #36

Post removed Post removed Feb 2014 #38

I'm sure the meat they normally use to feed the lions is donated by the animals Chathamization Feb 2014 #45