Poor Marius

Tuppy_Glossop said:
To me he seems to be saying that science may not hold all the right answers. Which is definitely a point of view, whether you agree or not.
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OK, accepted.
The alternative is to stop people breeding (which in practice means to deter those peasant cultures that prefer to breed excessively), and reduce the pressure on animals living space.

Which as a fantasy alternative I'm all for, the human race can probably drop a few billion prime examples of scum before living standards revert to the primitive. In fact if the populations of South America and Africa could kindly move somewhere else, then that may yet save us all.

As this isn't going to happen before we engineer our own extinction, they we may as well pretend we have a future and research what's left.
A pity we can't just clone Pandas, save all that time wasted on making them breed.
 
bitslice said:
OK, accepted.
The alternative is to stop people breeding (which in practice means to deter those peasant cultures that prefer to breed excessively), and reduce the pressure on animals living space.

Which as a fantasy alternative I'm all for, the human race can probably drop a few billion prime examples of scum before living standards revert to the primitive. In fact if the populations of South America and Africa could kindly move somewhere else, then that may yet save us all.
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Fantasy because people refuse to acknowledge the problem. You can tell people till you're blue in the face that we are critically endangering not just wildlife but the planet itself. Of those who don't immediately dismiss this as fiction, the remainder don't care enough to support radical solutions.

Personally forced sterilisation seems the lesser of evils, in places such as Africa.

As this isn't going to happen before we engineer our own extinction, they we may as well pretend we have a future and research what's left.
A pity we can't just clone Pandas, save all that time wasted on making them breed.
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Engineering our own destruction is a real possibility. We've already come close to all out nuclear destruction. Pretty close, in fact.

With the lack of collective will to stop population growth and resource depletion, the scenario of a man-made extinction event (humans and animals) is not so far-fetched. Quite likely, I'd imagine.
 
im sad to admit it but i agree 100% with bitslice.

Its a giraffe, its death wasn't in vane it had an educational purpose and a tasty treat afterwards.

Giraffes are not endangered species and dont warrant that level of "boo hoo"
 
Is no one worried about what these zoos may be secretly planning with their genetically pure, super giraffe breeding programme? I smell a plan to take over the world.
 
I don't get what the fuss is about. This happens to animals day in and day out across the world... the only reason people seem to be concerned is because its a giraffe.
 
God gave it life and "we" decided it has no place/right to live.

The reason it was killed was not solely to provide food, though essentially it was destroyed because it was deemed not fit/worthy to live.

I am reminded of Fransis of Asissi who said how can we treat man right, if we can not even treat animals correctly?
 
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So we should all be vegetarians, or only eat animals that died of natural causes? I'm pretty sure there is mention of eating meat in the bible somewhere...

Like that poor fish.
 
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