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In reply to the discussion: Second Danish zoo plans to publicly dissect giraffe and feed to lions [View all]gwheezie
(3,580 posts)You seem to be stuck on the vegetarian thing.
I have no problem with feeding lions any kind of animal carcass. I have/had horses,goats and beef, some of the acceptable ways of disposing of an animal is a bullet and donation to a zoo, or in the case of fox hunters, a bullet and fed to the hounds. In some states, you can dispose of a carcass by leaving it out to be eaten by carnivores. You can't do this if the animal is put down using chemicals.
It seems to me that American zoos have a different way of dealing with breeding animals then Denmark does, since we have a comment from someone who actually works in an American zoo, I figure that person knows what they're talking about.
I am a vegetarian, I used to eat meat, I ate meat of the livestock/fowl I raised. I think factory farming is inhumane, I preferred to have my animals live in a fairly normal as nature intended environment. I believe hunting is more humane than factory farms, the animal lives as intended until it is killed. Having said all that, this is apples and oranges when talking about a zoo breeding animals and then killing them because they can't think of a better way to deal with the offspring. I don't even care if they want to use the carcass as an educational tool, I assume they are giving people the choice if they want to watch it. I would prefer zoos figure out another way to deal with a healthy animal they produced than kill it. It sounds like American zoos have figured this out.
And this rural vs city thing is getting old, I have lived in both settings, one is not better than another.