"It's attached to humans, kill it!" says the animal 'rights' activists

In Germany, a baby polar bear is on death row, apparently. His mother rejected him and now a bunch of animal rights activists want him killed instead of trying to save him or use him for breeding purposes just for the reason he attached himself to his care takers.

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Kill tame bear, say animal nuts

March 20, 2007

ANIMAL-RIGHTS activists have called for a zoo’s baby Polar bear to be KILLED — because it relies on humans.

Knut became a superstar after he was rejected by his mother at birth last December. His twin brother died after just four days.

The hand-reared polar bear touched the hearts of the nation and became the symbol of Berlin Zoo. He was even photographed by star snapper Annie Leibowitz for an international campaign. But extremists in Germany claim Knut’s cuteness is against his own “animal rights” and he should be put to sleep.

Activist Frank Albrecht said last night: “The hand-rearing of Knut is a breach of the animal protection code. “He’ll rely on humans forever and this cannot be right.” Zoo director Wolfram Ludwig added: “He will not be a proper Polar bear. But it is too late to kill him now.”

Thousands of tourists flock to see Knut fed by a baby’s bottle every day. He was voted the city’s top citizen in a TV poll. Wolfgang Apel, of the German Animal Protection Society, said: “We must be careful with Knut but killing him is not the answer.”

Source: The Sun And here's all the other versions of the story from different places other then a tabloid.

I'm thinking they didn't get the memo that Polar Bears are endangered...

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I....don't get it.

He's living in a zoo.

A zoo.

Aside from being a house pet, that's already as close as an animal ever gets to "relying on humans forever."

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Originally Posted by Skexis

I....don't get it.

He's living in a zoo.

A zoo.

Aside from being a house pet, that's already as close as an animal ever gets to "relying on humans forever."

Agreed. Besides, as far as I know, animals get hand-reared all the time in zoos around the world and only now does someone say "That isn't natural!"? While yes the cub would have died in the wild, zoos aren't "the wild".

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I worked at a Society for the Protection of Cruelty Against Animals for a few months and let me tell you, so called "activists" are very similar to what I would call "Crazy People", this only firms that point. Activists have this thing where they just yell at everyone instead of promoting change.

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I'm thinking they didn't get the memo that Polar Bears are endangered...

Which means it would be against WWF laws to kill it, and being attached to humans dose not mean he cannot be used for breeding, it's the mother that instructs the infant on how to act so a male 'domestic' polar bear would have no adverse effects on the population.

Frickin crazy activists.., be'in all crazy like that.

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Considering it lives in a fucking ZOO, their argument should be to eradicate every animal in captivity. Pretty sure every animal in every zoo is reliant on humans.

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Originally Posted by Render

Considering it lives in a fucking ZOO, their argument should be to eradicate every animal in captivity. Pretty sure every animal in every zoo is reliant on humans.[/i]

I think every animal in a zoo pisses activists off.

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Well, I'll just add that to the incredibly long list of retarded things I've seen and heard lately. Something's not right there, they can't be that idiotic surely?

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I've never heard of an Animal Rights activist wanting to kill a perfectly healthy animal from an endangered species. If I hadn't looked at the reports from the news sources I would never have believed it.

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Originally Posted by Article

ANIMAL-RIGHTS activists have called for a zoo’s baby Polar bear to be KILLED — because it relies on humans.

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ANIMAL-RIGHTS activists have called for a zoo’s baby Polar bear to be KILLED

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Sounds to me like these cats are more confused than a homosexual priest.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

If it wasn't for zoos and people looking after exotic animals, most of them would be extinct.

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“He’ll rely on humans forever and this cannot be right.” Zoo director Wolfram Ludwig added: “He will not be a proper Polar bear. But it is too late to kill him now.”

If you had a choice a between living in the artic or being waited on hand-and-foot for the rest of your life which would you choose?

How ya doing, buddy?

That's fucking ridiculous. How did they even get to that conclusion anyway?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

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"Hand-rearing a polar bear is not appropriate and is a serious violation of animal rights," Bild newspaper quoted animal rights campaigner Frank Albrecht as saying.

So killing off a polar bear cub isn't violating its animal rights? Riiiiiiiiight...

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Originally Posted by Unforgiven

That's fucking ridiculous. How did they even get to that conclusion anyway?

My guess is that either the zoo was breeding polar bears to be released back into the wild and/or they said that Knut was going to be released back into the wild long before he was even born. But that still doesn't really explain why they want to kill him seeing as how there have been lots of instances of that happening else where with different animals. And usually the conclusion they end up with is either ship them out to a different zoo/Sea World/animal reserve or just keeping them in the same zoo for the rest of their lives.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I've always thought it would serve the common good of mankind to line all of these fruitcake animal rights activists, global-warming nutjobs and wacked-out environmentalists against a wall and shoot them.

That said, they should leave the goddamned polar bear alone.

They shouldn't be worried about it's "instinct" being dulled from months/years of human captivity. Any animal will have that undercurrent of "wild" instinct, captive, domesticated or not, and it can be brought back in spades if need be.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by FLEX

They shouldn't be worried about it's "instinct" being dulled from months/years of human captivity. Any animal will have that undercurrent of "wild" instinct, captive, domesticated or not, and it can be brought back in spades if need be.

However it is very common for animals who live in captivity have a very high death rate when they are released from captivity. Free Willy died remember? (the actual whale, not the character).
It's a big problem with bears in the northern Canada actually, once they find out that there is food where people are, the grow dependent and come into towns and cause all sorts of problems. Just like how you cant stop putting out bird seeds in the winter without the birds that are eating it dying.

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I'm not too sure about zoos. I mean, sure, they treat the animals fairly and keep some species going, but I'm not sure they like the human attention. It's been a fairly long time since I've been to a zoo so my input on the matter seems a tad useless. It's always the cute animals that get all of the special treatment by people who don't even fully comprehend the issue of endangered species. The polar bear is one of these cute animals, I suppose.

Those activists have to right to kill a healthy animal of a vulnerable species of animal. I'm sure the polar bear will grow up to be just fine, anyway. At least there's a smaller chance it will be violent towards visitors/people.

Aww. It's cute...let's leave it alone now, even if it is ripping that person's head off. It's just so adorable.

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Perhaps it's a stunt to increase the Zoo's popularity. Then again, who the hell goes to the zoo!?

(I work at the zoo .__.)

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Some commentary on this situation, courtesy of The Now Show (BBC Radio 4).
http://www.yousendit.com/download/M3...YXlEa1UwTVE9PQ

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I find this to be a very odd thing for a animal rights group to say. Animals in zoos rely on people anyway, they need to be fed and have their living space maintained.

Next thing they will tell us to kill our pets cuz they have to rely on us.

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Originally Posted by Chibi Neko

I find this to be a very odd thing for a animal rights group to say. Animals in zoos rely on people anyway, they need to be fed and have their living space maintained.

Next thing they will tell us to kill our pets cuz they have to rely on us.

Your right on the money here. It sad. Perhaps they are just jealous cause they cant have their own bear.

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When I heard about that,I just could not believe that people who have "animal rights" in their name would even think about wanting to kill an animal. It's very weird. So what if it's in a zoo,the little polar bear is being taken care of.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Well since when have animal rights activists been doing smart things. Like insureing these aholes who kill cats, and dogs for fun get longer jail sentences. They don't care about everyday problems, they try to make themselves appear as the most important institution as possible.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

This reminds me of a conversation I had on a board somewhere about animal rights activists. More and more it seems these "Animal Rights Activists" don't really care about animals... they just hate humans and use animals as an excuse to act the way that they do.

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