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Those shows filled with animal cruelty should be banned in this age.

posted 12 years ago by Rena_Mahone
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Seriously, what's up with all those shows filled with animal cruelty? How could someone (that is not a sadist) even watch them?
I randomly encountered a Globe Trekker episode, and, aside from Ian's idiocy, I was shocked and disgusted when a native shot a marmot, waved the bloody dead animal in front of the camera, and he and Ian showed how to rip it open and cook it. WTF? How is something so awful allowed to be on tv (and on YouTube)? It's beyond me how society still accepts animal cruelty.

I absolutely loathe those shows that focus on how to hunt, kill, and cook wild animals, they are distasteful, gross, and pointlessly sadistic. They truly show the worst human sides: people who do not need to hunt to survive, but do it anyway. Ian is a white wealthy male, and most likely has enough money to buy his food in a supermarket. But no, being a psycho, he enjoys killing animals on camera.

Even if someone might not care about animal cruelty at all, one thing is for sure: it is absolutely unecessary and out of place in this show.
Isn't Lonely Planet supposed to be about travelling and discovering new places? Then why do those retards spend their time with torturing animals, instead of showing beautiful locations, speak about them, and give informations? Normal travellers, fortunately, don't join the barbaric hunting of the natives, they stay in a hotel/b&b or rent an apartment, eat in restaurants and bars, and visit anything that the place has to offer, all in a respectful, civilized way.
I wish there were more shows about travelling that do not involve any Medieval animal cruelty.

P.S: Agreements and reasonable replies are welcome. I will not bother with trolls and morons.

Boycott movies that involve real animal violence! (and their directors too)

[–] Sandor_Szavost 12 years ago

The meat we buy at supermarkets comes from animals who are killed violently. Methods vary, but in the U.S. cattle are usually stunned unconscious and then have their throats cut, which causes them to bleed to death. Then, they peel off their skin, cut their heads and legs off and cut the remaining carcass in two. The whole process is quite gruesome, I've been in a slaughterhouse.

Your complaint against the show seems to be that they showed a "native" and the show's host hunting and killing an animal to eat. You imply it would have been better if the host would have eaten in a restaurant, the "civilized" way. Does that mean that you don't care how violent was the death of the animal whose meat the host eats, as long as you don't see the killing of it?

You refer to the act of killing the marmot as "barbaric". Is the way cattle are killed in the U.S. not "barbaric"? You also wrote about the "torture" of the marmot but from your description of the hunting and killing I don't see said torture.

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[–] dumpfile1313 12 years ago

Rena, if you eat you MURDER animals too even if you are a vegan.

[–] Max_Sydney 10 years ago

native shot a marmot, waved the bloody dead animal in front of the camera

Globe Trekker producitons didn't ask someone to kill the animal. They were simplyfllming something that would have happened anyway.

[–] Max_Sydney 10 years ago

native shot a marmot, waved the bloody dead animal in front of the camera

Globe Trekker productions didn't ask someone to kill the animal. As documentary film-makers, they were simply filming something that would have happened anyway.

One could argue that this was anti-cruelty by creating awareness of foreign cultural practices that viewers were previously unaware of.

[–] Maya55555 8 years ago

Agreed.

"A stitch in time, saves your embarrassment." (RIP Ms. Penny LoBello)

[–] Satan2016 (23273) 6 years ago

You should just watch the Snowflake Channel then. Then you won't have to know that Noble Savages are not vegan pussies!