Feeding Time! [NSFW]

Wow, we just getting worked up over a Danish zoo putting down a giraffe and then feeding the carcass to the lions.

I hate to say this but it's "KILL OR BE KILLED!"

The Copenhagen zoo said it had to euthanize Marius, a perfectly healthy two-year-old young giraffe, to prevent inbreeding. Bengt Holst, the zoo’s scientific director said Marius didn't fit with the zoo’s breeding program.

If you understand the nature of the situation, why should they bury a huge animal?

Would be better they end up putting the animal into a grinder and serve it to the children?

Would you like it better if the giraffe would carry an infectious disease that could affect every animal or human in its presence?

C'mon, I don't have no problem with the video. I understand it's troubling and the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals will be pissed but seriously, what should they do?

Would people be upset that a healthy giraffe be killed by a lion?

The zoo said fears of inbreeding kept them from selling Marius to other institutions, and added that sterilization would adversely affect the giraffe’s health.

In a seemingly macabre twist, the euthanization by bolt gun occurred in public and in front of children at the zoo. Holst said the children were not affected by the scene, and “asked good questions.”

Horst said between twenty and thirty animals a year are culled due to breeding decisions. This was the first giraffe. “I do not understand the outrage,” he said. “We have to ensure a safe healthy population for the future, and you can only have a healthy population if you control and coordinate your breeding efforts.”