Posted on 02/05/2010 12:04:31 PM PST by decimon
Beef... It’s what’s for dinner.
Well, I’ll say this about that:
Done plenty of live bait fishing - hooked a live animal to catch & kill another live animal after the first one was eaten.
Fed captive snakes live mammals (wife is a science teacher, has them in her lab)
Or feeder fish fed to an Oscar fish.
Plenty of live feeding examples in the US, by non-bloodthirsty, non-twisted individuals. So really, this is just a matter of rating animals by size, familiarity, value, intelligence, or I don’t know what, to put them on some importance ranking chart. You can step on bugs, kill and eat a trout, kill a mouse in your attic or pantry, but...
Maybe the cow/tiger thing is your cup of tea, maybe it’s not, but I don’t think it’s worth judging someone over. Everyone in modern society has a different level of connection with the natural world. Some none at all, and some feel very close to it.
Tigers kill mammals. They killed and ate this mammal just like they’d kill and eat any other mammal. People eat beef, and plenty of US Zoo tigers eat beef. No need to get twisted around the axle because these tigers made their own kill as opposed to humans doing it for them because “humans kill cows better than tigers kill cows.”
The park has saved the species from extinction with the goal being to release the tigers into the wild. Supposedly it is to help them ‘hunt’ when they are released into the wild. It brings ‘thrills’ to the (mostly) Chinese tourists. Thrills equals money. Money saves and feeds the tigers.
On the other hand. CHINESE ZOOS. Don’t watch video if you don’t want to be upset. UK, Wednesday February 27, 2008 Peter Sharp,, China Correspondent - “China’s zoos have been described as “insane asylums for animals” and a national disgrace...” “I come back to the same zoo four or five years later and the same animals are still trapped in the same tiny cage. “It’s called zoo-chosis. The animals are simply driven out of their minds by the boredom.” http://www.equinenow.com/video-num-453091.htm
Prolly was one on the "menu" but they didn't want to pony up the money....the cow was cheaper.
Bump for reference.
This has become an interesting thread and you’ve laid things out pretty well.
It’s a personal call and a judgment call. I don’t like it in that I wouldn’t want to be part of what was done. But that’s me. I can’t say that I’m right or morally superior to anyone involved in the practice.
Some might call me a wuss and others say I’m a decent guy. I’d say that’s just me.
Not me... I hunt and fish... have all of my 55 years... but cruelty to animals is something that I do not tolerate... me and Uncle Ted pride ourselves on clean humane kills... now two legged enemies of Liberty such as rop’ers do not come under my classification of “animals” or “humans”. I have NO such problem with torturing those satanic vermin... but that is just me.
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Well wild animals rarely die in their sleep, right? My guess is they either starve, get eaten, or die of disease. Sometimes all three. Nothing sounds like a picnic. Dying’s never easy for anything. I’m in the medical profession, I’ve seen my share of people die. Some people suffer more than others.
But I’ve seen lion hunts and such on TV, and often the animals are still alive when they are being eaten. It just seems awful to me, that people enjoy a spectacle like that.
Closest I'd guess to dieing peacefully in their sleep is if an animal doesn't have the energy stored up to come out of hibernation. Just a guess though.
But I’ve seen lion hunts and such on TV, and often the animals are still alive when they are being eaten. It just seems awful to me, that people enjoy a spectacle like that.
Maybe they were just interested in seeing how the tigers killed their prey.... just like you apparently were when you watched something similar on TV.
It seems like I've read somewhere that the mind has the ability to shut itself off to exceptional trauma. Quite often an animal will scream when its caught by a predator, but I don't recall ever seeing one screaming while its getting eaten when I've seen shows on TV like you mentioned or when I see my cat eat something its caught. It may not be as painful as you imagine. God may have ways of making death less horrific in the mind of the dieing.... when it inevitable comes.
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