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Zookeepers kill healthy baby giraffe with a bolt gun because he was 'surplus

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  • brianluxbrianlux Posts: 42,047
    WTF?!?! This is insane.

    Ya know, this really brings back something very fucked I once witnessed. I once applied for a job at a large pharmaceuticals company taking care of lab animals. I was young and naive and thought maybe I could give these animals some good care despite their sad fate. But during the interview/tour of the facility one of the employees killed a rabbit in front of me in a way I will not describe here except to say that it was shocking, especially because this guy obviously took pleasure in the killing. With a twisted smile on his face he told me this was part of the job. Obviously I didn't take the job. To my way of thinking this kind of person is not human. The sickness that runs in the minds and veins of people like that guy in the lab or these people in the zoo is something I can't understand.

    Is our species really that full of pollution? Fuck- someone please say something to restore my faith in humanity.
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  • Thirty Bills UnpaidThirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    Brian,

    Get around children. The only way to stay somewhat sane in this day and age and have any hope for humanity is to listen to children laugh and talk.

    We were children once too. We should pinpoint the moments that hardened us and make preparations to curb these moments for the next generation.

    But who am I to talk? I've grown very cold and cynical in my time. Humans just have a great propensity to disappoint each other.
    "My brain's a good brain!"
  • unsungunsung Posts: 9,487
    There were animal sanctuaries offering to take it in too. I don't get it.
  • lukin2006lukin2006 Posts: 9,087
    To me it's just sick. But really it should not surprise the human race seems to be in serious decline.
    I have certain rules I live by ... My First Rule ... I don't believe anything the government tells me ... George Carlin

    "Life Is What Happens To You When Your Busy Making Other Plans" John Lennon
  • lukin2006lukin2006 Posts: 9,087
    brianlux said:

    WTF?!?! This is insane.


    Is our species really that full of pollution? Fuck- someone please say something to restore my faith in humanity.

    I wish I could.
    I have certain rules I live by ... My First Rule ... I don't believe anything the government tells me ... George Carlin

    "Life Is What Happens To You When Your Busy Making Other Plans" John Lennon
  • chadwickchadwick Posts: 21,157
    edited February 2014
    i want people like these zoo keepers rounded up, thrown in cages & put on display
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    Who the fuck brings their children to witness this?
  • AnnafalkAnnafalk Posts: 4,004
    edited February 2014
    It was a strange thing to do, I don't get
    It. Only because the DNA wasn't good enough. But couldn't they just sterilize/spay the animal?
    (People protested outside the zoo.)
    Post edited by Annafalk on
  • groovemegrooveme Posts: 353
    Such a sad and unneeded thing. Yes they could have sterilized him and/or sent him to any of the facilities who had offered to take him. Someone just really wanted to kill him.

    Brian, sometimes I despair of the inhumanity of mankind. The only thing that give me comfort (other than not participating in animal/people abuse) is to remember that there are many people who try to stop this type of thing, and focus on helping them
  • brianluxbrianlux Posts: 42,047
    ^^^ I am lucky to have you good people in my life- very lucky.
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
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  • Jason PJason P Posts: 19,138
    Danish people must not have Giraffes in the "cute animal" catagory. Or they hate Giraffes named Maurice ...

    Not again!

    Despite the death threats and worldwide disgust when the Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark killed 2-year-old giraffe Marius to prevent inbreeding on Sunday, Feb. 9, a second zoo in the country plans to kill a giraffe -- and says it’s in the animal’s best interest.

    The second giraffe, coincidentally also named Marius, lives at the Danish Jyllands Park Zoo. To make room for a female giraffe it plans to acquire, the zoo plans to put down its 7-year-old male, balancing out genders in the facility.

    foxnews.com/science/2014/02/13/second-danish-zoo-plans-to-kill-young-giraffe-to-stop-inbreeding/
  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    As if the first one weren't sad enough.

    What the fuck, Denmark?

  • PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Posts: 49,956
    edited February 2014
    Zoos and aquariums are wrong. They shouldn't be legal. Yeah yeah, breeding programs, education, blah blah blah. That doesn't change the fact that it's immoral.

    I do not understand why they can't find another place for these animals instead of killing them. I'm shocked that they are sacrificing their reputation to do this. All around, totally fucked up.
    Post edited by PJ_Soul on
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  • groovemegrooveme Posts: 353
    PJ_Soul said:

    Zoos and aquariums are wrong. They shouldn't be legal. Yeah yeah, breeding programs, education, blah blah blah. That doesn't change the fact that it's immoral.

    I do not understand why they can't find another place for these animals instead of killing them. I'm shocked that they are sacrificing their reputation to do this. All around, totally fucked up.

    Agreed. I did read that the second giraffe was not actually in danger, though
  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    UGH = understatement. I could fucking cry at this.

    news.msn.com/world/after-giraffe-uproar-copenhagen-zoo-kills-4-lions

    COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Danish zoo that faced protests for killing a healthy giraffe to prevent inbreeding says it has put down four lions, including two cubs, to make room for a new male lion.

    Citing the "pride's natural structure and behavior," the Copenhagen Zoo said Tuesday that two old lions had been euthanized as part of a generational shift. It said the cubs were also put down because they were not old enough to fend for themselves and "anyway would have been killed by the new male lion."

    Zoo officials hope the new male and two females born in 2012 will form the nucleus of a new pride.

    Last month the zoo triggered a wave of protests by killing a 2-year-old giraffe, and feeding its remains to the lions as visitors watched.
  • TheseGoToElevenTheseGoToEleven Posts: 106
    They're using preservation the "natural structure and behavior" of a pride of lions IN THE CONFINES OF A ZOO as rationale for prematurely killing the members of said pride? How is this killing as a first and only resort acceptable to anyone, let alone this zoo's ownership and management?
    [i]Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?[/i]
  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    I know, it makes no sense. The anger I feel towards these so-called zoo officials is pretty strong.

    It defies (my) logic and just breaks my heart.
  • Jason PJason P Posts: 19,138
    The citizens of Denmark must have pragmatic ice water flowing through their veins.

    I picture the zoo officials doing this everytime the make an announcement of more cullings ...

    image
  • SmellymanSmellyman Posts: 4,524
    and most of you will eat a hamburger today, or back or some veal...
  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    What is back?

    And how does being a carnivore take anything away from this?
  • SmellymanSmellyman Posts: 4,524
    edited March 2014
    hedonist said:

    What is back?

    And how does being a carnivore take anything away from this?

    Not sure. I don't remember posting that. I think I meant bacon? don't drunk post. Won't derail thread on my feelings about killing of anything....

    Anyway, seems the same zoo is at it again. This time Killing four lions to make room for a new male lion. Fucking operators of the zoo need to be put down.

    LINK

    Edit: Now I see you already posted it. damn I am on fire today.

    Post edited by Smellyman on
  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    OK...and thanks for the smile, man.

    I've been there on the PUI front and have looked back thinking "the fuck did I write?"

    All good.
  • GanjapleaseGanjaplease Posts: 65
    What would you choose?


    an entire life spent in prison,...in chains...or death?
  • Jason PJason P Posts: 19,138
    Smellyman said:

    and most of you will eat a hamburger today, or back or some veal...

    Cows aren't cute.

    I became aware of the irony a week ago while eating a full rack of baby back ribs. A baby pig was sacrificed for $46 for my enjoyment. And I would happily go there to eat again. So why should I care if a few lions die?

    But I do. It's one of the few oddities of being human.
  • Jason PJason P Posts: 19,138
    Unfortunatly, a scene from The Hangover 3 played itself out in real life ...

    image
  • unsungunsung Posts: 9,487
    edited July 2014
    http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/269424351.html?_osource=SocialFlowFB_CHBrand


    Just saw this, so I'll add to the photo.
  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    Jesus - the photo almost looks like a joke. Very sad that it isn't.

    (I wonder what happened to the second giraffe; did he duck?)
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