I love African wildlife videos and it’s not unusual to see one where a wildebeest was captured by crocs while crossing a river. The only thing I’ve ever seen that’s uglier is when wild dogs capture something. Two dozen of them will eat the creature alive...and 5 minutes later all you see is a skeleton.
Like the zombies in Walking Dead, this is why I laugh when vegans tell me that eating meat is cruel. What’s crueler? Quickly and humanely dispatching a food source or eating the animal alive? Food is energy, and humans need it as much as any other creature. The difference between us and them is that we can understand its value. Nature doesn’t give a crap.
Back in 1992, there was a family in Phnom Penh who had a croc pit. Every Tuesday, they fed them live stray dogs (of which there was an overabundance) by dropping the poor pooches into it from the top of the wall. Some Westerners went to see the free show. Not I.