Animals Torn To Pieces By Lions In Front Of Baying Crowds...

The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | January 5, 2008 | By Danny Penman

[eleni121]

remember it is murder in some people eyes.

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NO doubt B4Ranch!

Abortion is a hideous form of mutilation and murder no doubt about it. It is appropriate to bring this up here or anywhere any time.

[Ransomed]

I know where you are coming from...but animals should not be treated as less than animals, either.

Freegards

[donna]

So, which culture do you chose instead?

[B4Ranch]

Click on this link and tell me if these pictures are more horrifying than the ones at the beginning of the thread.

http://www.abortionno.org/Resources/pictures.html

[eastforker]

Don’t change the subject. The animal kingdom is cruel yet natural, man is part of that kingdom and on top of the food chain. Feeding live chickens and goats to lions is no different than feeding a live rat to a snake, or an insect to a spider.

[TigersEye]

If the Chinese had the power perhaps they would change these cruel practices. We have the power and we don’t.

That is a very good point, Varda. It is also a rather tenuous thing to pigeonhole the people in a nation of over 500 million that springs from as many individual nations/cultures as Europe has. Or judge the way they act after living under a century of tyranny. It didn't take long to turn the good Judeo/Christian people of Germany into monsters and it was done without threatening them.

[Balding_Eagle]

but animals should not be treated as less than animals, either

Which ones were?

[eleni121]

Always good to be reminded that we cannot point fingers at others if we allow worse ourselves.

[eastforker]

What you said, true to the core, but I am tired of arguing with the ignorant.

[TigersEye]

Feeding live chickens and goats to lions is no different than feeding a live rat to a snake, or an insect to a spider.

Actually it is different. Snakes and spiders won't eat dead things usually. Lions will eat meat from humanely killed animals. Humans have the capacity to choose how they participate in life. Feeding animals is a kindness. Entertaining yourself by watching live animals ripped apart has no kindness in it that I can see.

[snowsislander]

Thanks for posting the pics. I have never seen dozens of lions in one place before. I should have gone to this zoo the last time I was in Peking just for that. I’ll have to go there the next time I visit - probably decades from now.

If you happen to visit Japan and are in the Tokyo area, you can also see a number of lions in an open area like this at the Tama Zoo (there's even a bus to take you out among them.)

[TigersEye]

I appreciate that. You can argue with me now if you like. ;^)

[eastforker]

Take my earlier post about fishing and minnows. No, I do not relish in or about the minnows death but I sure as hell brag about the fish that it caught. The end result is the same and I am not gonna cry about the minnow or the fish it caught, I am, however, gonna feast on the beast and invite anyone that wants to join me.

[Ransomed]

Ever hear the expression “I wouldn’t do that to a dog”? Animals should be treated like animals, not like people or like less than animals.

Freegards

[MarkL]

I realize that when lions feed, something had died. It's a part of life. However, in the wild, when a pride of lions bring down prey, the prey is usually dead before the pride starts feeding. It makes sense, simply because it's inconvenient for the animals to be thrashing around while it's being devoured - which is why big cats go for the throat. On the other hand, from the description, you've got a bunch of hungry lions who simply rip the creatures to pieces. It seems to me that this is something that the Chinese government wants to allow, partly to reduce the humanity of the population, and inure them to this sort of senseless violence.

Mark

[SouthTexas]

but I sure as hell brag about the fish that it caught

As well you should!

I think far too many people are ignorant these days to the realities of nature. This goes on daily in the wild and yes, animals do play with their food. That's how they teach the young ones to catch it!

[Balding_Eagle]

Why did you dodge my question?

[GOPPachyderm]

Very sobering post. We have no right to protest when we ourselves practice such a barbaric act as partial birth abortion and have killed more than 45 million babies.

[donna]

Then you should go to the zoo in San Diego and throw a goat, LOL.

[Mr. Brightside]

Or the ‘Circle of life.’