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Anyone else been following the story about the chick who threw the puppies in a river?

TICC said:
Ya, I thought the one comment about how children are being raised was pretty funny. I worked for an 80-year-old contractor who had a steal cage that he drowned kittens in whenever his cat got pregnant.

Beyond that, veal. Hell, any meat we buy in our local supermarket. I've been to a pig farm in Australia, a chicken farm in North Carolina, and seen some pretty terrible beef operations in Northern California. It's amazing people are so outraged when a few puppies are drowned.
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I realize that you're commenting on the hypocritical indignation of people who aren't aware of the atrocities they patronize, but I'm not a fan of relative arguments. The cultural issues in this story are real--lots of people around the world have euthanized animals the way they were brought up to do it. So the girl doesn't deserve to be crucified even if a little sensitivity training might be in order.

But outrage, however misdirected, could do some good here. People who previously weren't aware might figure out that A) they actually can make a half assed effort to find the animals homes, B) they can take them to a shelter, or C) if they live where there aren't animal shelters, they can at least find ways to kill them humanely. Last I checked, drowning didn't top anybody's list of humane ways to die.

Just to be on the record, I'm a crazy animal lover and longtime multiple dog owner. I'm also a card carrying hypocrite since I eat meat, although I do only buy humane raised offerings at the supermarket for outrageous prices. (And yeah, I check my conscience at the door at restaurants.) Regardless, the world can do more to prevent puppies being thrown into a river to die, just as it can do more to raise its livestock humanely, and the mistreatment of one doesn't justify the other.

This is not directed at you, it's not supposed to be a sermon, and I'm just throwing in my opinion.
 
of all the tragic things that have happened in bosnia over the last decade....this is what gets michael bay to put up $50,000.


what an *******.

are he and hopper related?
 
billyshelby said:
I realize that you're commenting on the hypocritical indignation of people who aren't aware of the atrocities they patronize, but I'm not a fan of relative arguments. The cultural issues in this story are real--lots of people around the world have euthanized animals the way they were brought up to do it. So the girl doesn't deserve to be crucified even if a little sensitivity training might be in order.

But outrage, however misdirected, could do some good here. People who previously weren't aware might figure out that A) they actually can make a half assed effort to find the animals homes, B) they can take them to a shelter, or C) if they live where there aren't animal shelters, they can at least find ways to kill them humanely. Last I checked, drowning didn't top anybody's list of humane ways to die.

Just to be on the record, I'm a crazy animal lover and longtime multiple dog owner. I'm also a card carrying hypocrite since I eat meat, although I do only buy humane raised offerings at the supermarket for outrageous prices. (And yeah, I check my conscience at the door at restaurants.) Regardless, the world can do more to prevent puppies being thrown into a river to die, just as it can do more to raise its livestock humanely, and the mistreatment of one doesn't justify the other.

This is not directed at you, it's not supposed to be a sermon, and I'm just throwing in my opinion.
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I agree with this post completely. I do think it's valuable to point out the hypocrisy, however.
 
Why couldn't people just listen to what Bob Barker had to say?

The whole pet ownership thing is pretty ****ed up, no matter what angle you take. Dogs and cats in captivity are taken care of so well, but nature hasn't caught up to domestication, and probably never will. As long as that's the case, this situation will continuously repeat.

Either way, if you own a pet and don't control it's birthing situation, that's your own dumb fault, and you should suffer the consequences if you can't keep it under control. And yeah yeah, the girl was probably taught to do that and it's the parents or the culture's fault, whatever, but people won't ever learn if examples are not made. And sensibly, the girl should be educated more than punished, but I'm sure that won't happen, either.

In fact, I'm going to sum this post up by saying "the world is ****ed up, and there's not many things you can do to fix it." This was a predictable outcome... something similar will happen in a few days and we'll forget about this story.
 
unluckyseventeen said:
Why couldn't people just listen to what Bob Barker had to say?

The whole pet ownership thing is pretty ****ed up, no matter what angle you take. Dogs and cats in captivity are taken care of so well, but nature hasn't caught up to domestication, and probably never will. As long as that's the case, this situation will continuously repeat.

Either way, if you own a pet and don't control it's birthing situation, that's your own dumb fault, and you should suffer the consequences if you can't keep it under control. And yeah yeah, the girl was probably taught to do that and it's the parents or the culture's fault, whatever, but people won't ever learn if examples are not made. And sensibly, the girl should be educated more than punished, but I'm sure that won't happen, either.

In fact, I'm going to sum this post up by saying "the world is ****ed up, and there's not many things you can do to fix it." This was a predictable outcome... something similar will happen in a few days and we'll forget about this story.
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Unlike women who don't control the "birthing situation" and throw their own fetus into the river/surgical vacuum.

Hypocrisy abounds.
 
Gameface said:
Unlike women who don't control the "birthing situation" and throw their own fetus into the river/surgical vacuum.

Hypocrisy abounds.
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