Zoo kills Giraffe…

Yes i agree , but you have to also add that man has the ability to dictate up to a point which direction nature will take her course.This of course goes out the window when something major goes wrong and mans bad decisions come home to roost as they are now in the UK with the flooding.

Man is as much a part of the natural world as animals.

We can all accept nature as it’s a way of life, it’s beautiful as it is brutal… It’s when the Human element is added, then it’s a total f*ck up!

While on the subject, I went to the ‘Exotic Food’ counter in my local Waitrose. I asked for some giraffe steaks – I think that the assistant thought I was ‘cuckoo’. I left her laughing like a hyena.

I pitched the butcher in the meat department with a #ock and bull story about camel meat. I’ve eaten plenty of camel although too much can give you the hump.

I though I’d collected enough egg on my face for one day. I joined the queue in the cafeteria and ordered a cod piece – or, was that a piece of cod? And pigs trotters.

I felt like I’d just had a day at the zoo.

There’s no difference. The end result is the same. Food. If the species is a carnivore or an omnivore, some have to die for others to live. It’s called Nature.

For me this isn’t about the killing of an animal per-sea, animals are sometimes killed for valid reasons and for food. I don’t have a problem with either.
What I don’t understand is why the Zoo couldn’t just sterilise the animal. Problem solved.
Killing a perfectly healthy animal goes against what I believe a Zoo is about.

I guess that makes the beef cattle feel a lot better about things.

Moggy

But it was killed and went for food. So what is the difference between the lions eating beef, raised and slaughtered by man and a giraffe raised and slaughtered by man?

Moggy

Food wasn’t the reason for killing the giraffe though was it. It was killed because the zoo apparently mismanaged their breeding programme. The fact that the carcass was used of food is “bonus” for the zoo and the lions.

Well we’ve had human dissections conducted on TV so I suppose once we/they are dead we are all, human and animal, just cadavres, aren’t we?

I’m sure most can differentiate between the necessary killing of animals for food and the apparent unnecessary killing of animals in zoos.

But it was killed and went for food. So what is the difference between the lions eating beef, raised and slaughtered by man and a giraffe raised and slaughtered by man?

Moggy

The Giraffe never needed to be born,i bet the amount of people that saw it as a foal [is that correct] went awww.Lions killing it in the wild -or course but cutting it up infront of people well that seems wrong.
Cows being killed for food,thats something we all have to think about as individuals.

Surely a responsible breeding policy would mean that the animal wasn’t born in the first place and not having to kill it when it was nearly two years old?

Precisely so, Ben! And but for the media pandering to half the population’s sensibilities there wouldn’t be a story.

Sad especially because it was an attractive, elegant animal. I doubt many would have become that upset about a warthog or alligator that was put down.

Moggy

This why this thread is here. How many people enjoyed their beef dinner before pouring condemnation on this responsible breeding policy. You should know the Cow died by bolt gun too. Is that acceptable because it is not as `pretty` as a Giraffe ? Do `animal lovers` value the life of one creature more than another ? Is that acceptable ?
Is it acceptable to kill a Cow because we eat them but not acceptable to feed a Giraffe to a Lion that would eat it in its natural environment ?
Was it acceptable to dissect a Frog at school but not acceptable to use the rare opportunity to use the body of the Giraffe to educate people ?

Most important of all, if you are so interested in conservation, then you will know that these decisions are made all the time in order to maintain healthy breeding lines in Zoos, as they are on farms.

It is not a nice thing to happen but it does need to be put into context.

Ben

Only today David Attenborough stated that viewers cannot get enough of life in the wild – lions catching and killing wildebeest, for example!

I’m sure most can differentiate between the necessary killing of animals for food and the apparent unnecessary killing of animals in zoos.

On the contrary. Every animal (and human) has to die.

Moggy

Indeed thats correct, but I cant help thinking its us as a parasite on this planet that should die out first.

Much more educational for all visitors in zoo’s (I think) would be feeding live animals to the Lions, Tigers etc. That way every visitor gets to see what the big cats really do in the wild…

I’m sure that the majority of us have seen domestic cats catching and killing something, so why should we not see big cats doing what they do?

It’s obvious that many of you must be vegetarians. You obviously don’t eat meat reared for that purpose nor then are you familiar with the processing of beef cattle thru’ slaughterhouse accompanied by the mournful lowing of said cattle very much aware of their fate.

On the contrary. Every animal (and human) has to die.

Moggy

no animal has to die esspesially in the way they did it