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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
There's a reason those machines are behind the closed doors of a slaughterhouse, many people in western society would be disagreeable to seeing what actually goes on. This however is a public spectacle being enjoyed by the masses and sold at a profit. This goat wasn't fed to the lions because it was part of their normal and neccessary diet. It was because an audience paid to see it thrown into the lion's den to run for it's life and then be mauled to shreds. There's a vast difference between the large scale industrialization of the processing of animals for neccessary food...and the cruel treatment of animals for entertainment purposes,
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I dunno Dude, Lions are meat eaters and whether or not the meat was killed behind closed doors or in front of a paying audience it doesn't matter to the goat...the only thing that matters is if it suffered...
Do I think that this is twisted? Yes.
But do Lions need to be fed meat?...Yes.
Do I think that the Goat in this case suffered less that the Cow that was killed to feed the lions at the Calgary Zoo...who knows?
In some ways, I feel that Western culture is quite hypocritical about animal rights...many people get on a soapbox Re: Animal cruelty but don't do much to stop it...kind of like eating a cheeseburger on the way to an SPCA meeting.
I am 100% against unnecessary animal suffering (I hate the idea of Hunting, buy a goddamn camera), but I think this case is being singled out unfairly because of the spectacular nature of the Goats demise...