Muhler
Imperial Majesty
- Joined
- Apr 18, 2010
- Messages
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- City
- Eastern Jutland
- Country
- Denmark
Why?
It's more dignified than what happens at a slaughterhouse or for that matter on a poultry-farm or a pork-factory.
And please keep in mind that not all can afford the luxury of becoming a vegan.
If the population of deer is not kept down, the population will grow with up to 300.000 deer a year in DK alone!
After a few years they can't find anything to eat in the forests, moors and meadows, and as such they have to get closer to people, into the towns and cities - and here they will encounter the top-predator: the car.
Apart from that, when there is a surplus population nature will cut the number in a very brutal way: starvation and decease. The youngest, the oldest and the sick will die first - over weeks. You don't die from starvation in a couple of hours.
So what is better? To close the eyes for how brutal nature is? Or in the absence of enough predators, show children how culling takes place and doing it in a way that is not as garish as butchering the animals?
Nature is not Disney. There is no agreement between the wilder beasts and the lions about "the law of the wild".
I believe if wildebeests and giraffes were able to vote, they would vote overwhelmingly for a motion to exterminate all lions.
Harsh words, I know. I'm an animal lover too, but since I live in the countryside I see with my own eyes what happens during ice-winters or when there are too many animals around.
It's more dignified than what happens at a slaughterhouse or for that matter on a poultry-farm or a pork-factory.
And please keep in mind that not all can afford the luxury of becoming a vegan.
If the population of deer is not kept down, the population will grow with up to 300.000 deer a year in DK alone!
After a few years they can't find anything to eat in the forests, moors and meadows, and as such they have to get closer to people, into the towns and cities - and here they will encounter the top-predator: the car.
Apart from that, when there is a surplus population nature will cut the number in a very brutal way: starvation and decease. The youngest, the oldest and the sick will die first - over weeks. You don't die from starvation in a couple of hours.
So what is better? To close the eyes for how brutal nature is? Or in the absence of enough predators, show children how culling takes place and doing it in a way that is not as garish as butchering the animals?
Nature is not Disney. There is no agreement between the wilder beasts and the lions about "the law of the wild".
I believe if wildebeests and giraffes were able to vote, they would vote overwhelmingly for a motion to exterminate all lions.
Harsh words, I know. I'm an animal lover too, but since I live in the countryside I see with my own eyes what happens during ice-winters or when there are too many animals around.