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March 20, 2007
Tuesday
 
 
Samizdata quote of the day
Brian Micklethwait (London)  Civil liberty/regulation • Slogans/quotations

"Hand-feeding is not appropriate to the species and is a grave violation of the animal protection laws," said Frank Albrecht, an animal rights campaigner. "Legally speaking, the zoo should kill the baby bear. Otherwise it is condemning the bear to a dysfunctional life and that too is a breach of the law."

- spotted in timesonline by Dizzy

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Words fail


Posted by Johnathan Pearce at March 20, 2007 02:05 PM

knut the polar bear cub is the cutest thing in the world.

Can we have a picture please?

More seriously. Albrecht's point is essentially that if Knut is hand-reared then he may have difficulties hanging with other polar bears which is nonsense because the polar bear is essentially solitary.

The version of this I read was even more bizarrely worded/translated and had Herr Albrecht saying something like it was "interspecially unacceptable" which sounds more like he was reffering to bestiality.

Now I have seen somebody fuck a polar bear cub but the culprit was a Canadian and this was long ago and we were all very, very drunk.



Posted by Nick M at March 20, 2007 02:05 PM

Can't they just dump a large amount of live fish into the poor bear's pool? Or would that be infringing upon the civil rights of a large number of herring?


Posted by Julian Taylor at March 20, 2007 02:34 PM

Uhm.

Using this logic, we should kill all animals in every zoo, because none of them get their food ina natural manner.


Posted by Paul Jones at March 20, 2007 03:57 PM
Legally speaking ...

As long as it's legal!

Germans just love their rules.


Posted by David A. at March 20, 2007 04:03 PM

@David A.
No, we love to avoid thinking for ourselves.
I guess it is the same problem in the UK. We just cope differently, I guess.


Posted by german.guy at March 20, 2007 04:42 PM

Wouldn't the lesser evil be to sell the cub to a private zoo and then use the funds to save more polar bears? Killing it seems to be baby/bathwater stuff.


Posted by Brendan Halfweeg at March 20, 2007 05:11 PM

The man's a complete and utter knut.


Posted by John K at March 20, 2007 05:21 PM

We had to kill the bear in order to save it?


Posted by R C Dean at March 20, 2007 05:57 PM

For the greater good!


Posted by Jso at March 20, 2007 06:44 PM

First they came for the dysfunctional polar bears...


Posted by Just John at March 20, 2007 07:14 PM

Just John, you got me laughing with the truth of that. I think they are hypocrits when they oppose animal testing because what they are really doing in cases like this is testing social policy on animals first.


Posted by Midwesterner at March 20, 2007 07:57 PM

Just basic Lefty Logic.


Posted by Eric Tavenner at March 20, 2007 08:21 PM
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