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Pretty sickening. I don't agree with killing the giraffe, but to do it in front of an audience is repulsive. Seems like every day we read about some "expert" recommending slaughtering animals for some supposedly higher purpose.
This was not a spontaneous event.
It was known and highly controversial. Nonetheless, the zoo was packed with observers of all ages.
Parents choose to allow their children to observe.
Given many zoos offered to take the giraffe, I cannot imagine why this zoo chose to exterminate it.
I heard the WHOLE story on NPR. The autopsy not done out on full display, a patron had to decide if it was something they wished to see and go to a specific place to see it. No one saw it by accident. According to an observer, the children were fascinated and not disturbed in any way. The zoo specifically prohibits simply selling an animal to anyone, as many end up being kept in atrocious conditions in poorly run zoos, or circuses for their entire lives, a humane death is preferable to a miserable life IMO. Many acceptable zoos would have to same inbreeding issue with this particular animal.
We need to remember life is not always the best option if it means a life of misery. If most of us were an animal to be eaten, we would chose immediate humane death over the torture of being kept in horrible conditions then slaughtered.
There is so much animal CRUELTY causing sheer misery and pain going on in food production, down production, circuses, and simple abuse. There are much better places for this outrage if one genuinely cares about animals.
If this was a dog cut up for dinner for lions there would be protests.
Actually, I would prefer to see the stray dogs in the USA fed to zoo animals. It is a shame that so many homeless dogs have to be put to sleep because there are no homes for them.
It is an additional insult that their bodies are thrown into the dump, or ground into fertilizer, or sent to the rendering plant and used to make women's make-up.
If they must die, at least use the meat for a good purpose. They aren't garbage and it is ashame that they are treated like garbage. Give their end a bit of respect and let their life feed another.
I'm surprised they didn't just put it in with the lions alive so people could watch the slaughter. What a thrill THAT would have been.
Good and satisfying exercise for the lions, an exciting last chance for the giraffe to go out with a bang, and a more realistic lesson for the children.
If they wanted the kids to watch a butcher, they could have taken a field trip to a slaughterhouse instead.
I heard the WHOLE story on NPR. The autopsy not done out on full display, a patron had to decide if it was something they wished to see and go to a specific place to see it. No one saw it by accident. According to an observer, the children were fascinated and not disturbed in any way. The zoo specifically prohibits simply selling an animal to anyone, as many end up being kept in atrocious conditions in poorly run zoos, or circuses for their entire lives, a humane death is preferable to a miserable life IMO. Many acceptable zoos would have to same inbreeding issue with this particular animal.
We need to remember life is not always the best option if it means a life of misery. If most of us were an animal to be eaten, we would chose immediate humane death over the torture of being kept in horrible conditions then slaughtered.
There is so much animal CRUELTY causing sheer misery and pain going on in food production, down production, circuses, and simple abuse. There are much better places for this outrage if one genuinely cares about animals.
Do you have a link to the story by chance? So they did not do any of it out in the open, including actually killing the animal?
Actually in the wild it's the young, old, and weak that don't survive. The young rarely survive. I watched a BBC show yesterday on wolves and one pair had been breeding for 7 years. In that 7 years, only 3 pups made it to adulthood. She gave birth to large litters. That year she had 9. None made it.
What's graphic about it? If you don't want to watch, that's fine. But your food in the grocery store wasn't created by fairies. Animals were in fact murdered and chopped up for you to eat! What's the difference?
The wild environment and the zoo environment are two different animals. I would think that in the zoo setting an older animal would be better culled then a younger one.
Slaughter houses albeit horrifying are not zoo's. I think selling the animal for over $600,000 vs killing it makes a heck of a lot more business sense. Killing something that valuable = huge idiot factor in my universe. I can't get past why they wouldn't want that money instead.
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