Let me help you get mad about something other than a giraffe, internet. If you're sensitive stop reading. I'm known for getting bothered by shit that doesn't concern me. You can assume that I have no other worries in my life or that I have too much time on my hands. Honestly, all my shit is being handled by me so that leaves me with time to bitch about people bitching about a giraffe that was killed. Its a giraffe. No one would be this mad if it were a skunk, jackal, or other mammal that wasn't cute-ish. The zoo made this decision to reduce inbreeding as well as teach what the insides of a giraffe looks like, I guess.
At Copenhagen Zoo (do you even know
where that is?) a young giraffe was shot with a bolt pistol before
having its remains autopsied for a gathered crowd. After this is was
given to a group of lions at the zoo that either went “What are we
supposed to do with this?” or “Finally! After all these years we
can do what we were born to do!” Meanwhile the internet went crazy
and 20,000 people that signed a petition went “It's 2014 and
petitions mean something...right?” Not always. Sometimes its just
nice to have the names of people to look out for. Or to get Justin Bieber out of America.
Just like mom used to make. |
The European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA) said that Marius, the giraffe, was too close genetically to the other giraffes. Giraffes and most animals kept in captivity are bred from a small gene pool. To make sure that there isn't a generation of strange, small necked, two-headed giraffes sometimes you gotta add a little chlorine to the gene pool. Humanity would do well to take note. This isn't something that is exclusive to this zoo. Its not as if they decided for no reason to just 86 this giraffe. Zoos, parks, and animal rights reserves do this. Do you think there aren't hundreds of deers running the streets just because there aren't enough deer? No. Its because they are kept in check just as you do with your pets when you cut out the parts of them that allow them to reproduce.
The zoos director Bengt Holst stated
“Giraffes today breed very well, and when they do you have to
choose and make sure the ones you keep are the ones with the best
genes. The most important factor must be that the animals are healthy
physically and behaviorally and that they have a good life while they
are living, whether this life is long or short.” He also said that
the zoo euthanize twenty to thirty animals a year including bears,
tigers, and zebras. But no one is talking about that because it isn't
a giraffe.
A spokesman said that parents got to
decide whether or not their kids could watch what happened once Marius was
killed and as you can see from the photos lots of parents decided
that their kids could handle it. And if they couldn't they probably
cried and were led away. Whether the kids that stayed and watched
regret their decision waits to be seen...later on the cameras they
filmed it all on. Better yet, stop taking your kids to zoos. Those places stink and its boring.
All this stuff comes down to what
bothers you and what doesn't. I can think of a hundred other things
to get upset about than some giraffe getting killed and fed to lions.
Today alone I have consumed as far as I am aware two types of
animals. Animals die. Whether they die on a farm, a zoo, or because
you can't drive properly they die. We try to make ourselves feel
better by saying that since an animal was raised on a “nice” farm
its better. We sleep nice because that chicken got to live free range
before it was killed. Just accept the fact that animals get killed by
us and each other.
I'm sure a giraffe wondering the wilds
of Africa would rather take a bolt rifle to the skull killing it
instantly rather than being torn to shreds by a wild animal that is
burying its face in its intestines. That is if a giraffe could think
to prefer ways to die. We do that because we're people. We're humans.
We say shit like “I'd rather drown than burn to death!” because
we can.
"I sure hope someone locks me in a cage for the rest of me life..." |
I wish people would get as upset at how
shitty the schools are, how the world is falling apart around us, gay
marriage still being illegal, the church and all its bullshit, the
fact that we can't speak to each other like people anymore, and
drones flying over our heads monitoring us daily as they do about a
giraffe. Its just this outrage that seems so false to me. The same
people that rage against a giraffe are the same ones that will send
five bucks to a foreign country and brag about it but step over
homeless people on their own street.
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