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Originally Posted by some guy you dont know
what.. the.. censored? i shall not even comment on how i feel about the guys saying they should kill the polar bear. i just have to ask. what they are on?
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It is actually commonplace in American zoos for staff to handraise animals, since it makes it easier to work with them and do routine vet checkups, and is far less stressful on the animals if they are used to at least some human contact. In the case of rare and endangered species, if the mothers shows even the slightest indication that she might abandon or harm her offspring, the staff won't take the chance of leaving the babies with her, but will intervene and raise the babies themselves. They can't take a chance that even one valuable member of a rare species might be lost.
One thing that you must understand about the Animal Rights people-this is NOT the same thing as Animal
Welfare, which is about protecting animals from cruelty and promoting humane care of animals. The basic tenent of the Animal Rights movement is that ALL animals are better off dead than living in contact with humans, and that included the animals in zoos, as well as your pets. They believe that it is cruelty in and of itself for humans to keep ANY animals in captivity, whether it's a polar bear in a zoo, or a Yorkshire Terrier in a townhouse. They would rather see that little bear cub killed than to see it in a zoo, period, whether or not it was handraised by humans. The Animal Rights movement is born not so much out of a love of animals- indeed, their founders and leaders, such as PeTA's Ingrid Newkirk and Pete Singer, will readily admit that they have no love of animals-as it is a hatred and contempt for all of humanity. The militant, terrorist arm of the Animal Rights movement, the ALF(Animal Liberation Front), has repeatedly threatened to release deadly animal diseases like the Asian Bird Flu and Hoof-and-Mouth Disease within the population of American livestock, and to initiate a campaign to kill American pets-for their own GOOD, of course. I find it VERY interesting that the cause of death in so many dogs and cats from eating tainted pet food recently was a rat poison which is banned in the US, except as an experimental cancer treatment drug, used in labs also targeted for break-ins by the the ALF. Coincidence? Maybe, maybe not. The sad thing is, a lot of young people proclaim themselves to support these groups and to be all for Animal Rights, without realizing just what these groups and the movement really involve, and the groups take advantage of that. What we have seen expressed by the AR activists in Germany is TYPICAL of how these people think, not an exception at all.
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