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'We want this baby polar bear dead' say animal rights lobby

dailymail.co.uk — Tiny, fluffy and adorable, Knut the baby polar bear became an animal superstar after he was abandoned by his mother. Animal rights activists argue that he should be given a lethal injection rather than brought up suffering the humiliation of being treated as a domestic pet.

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  • softwareNerd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What a concretization of anti-value nihilism.
  • mazerrackham, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This was one guy, not an "animal rights lobby". The whole damn article is just sensationalist.

    From the CNN version of the story (http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/03/19/polar.bear.ap/index.html):
    Albrecht told The Associated Press his beliefs were more nuanced than reported by Bild, though he applauded the debate the article had started.
    He explained that though he thought it was wrong of the zoo to have saved the cub's life, now that the bear can live on his own, it would be equally wrong to kill him.
    "If a polar bear mother rejected the baby, then I believe the zoo must follow the instincts of nature," Albrecht said. "In the wild, it would have been left to die."
    The German animal rights organization "Four Paws" argued along similar lines, saying it would not be right to punish the cub for a bad decision made by the zoo.
  • JohnGalt01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Let's euthanize the "one guy" instead.

    It is an environmental triple play:
    1) They won't have to worry about the cub anymore.
    2) They will become "carbon neutral"
    3) They will contribute to reducing the blight of human population.
  • michaelangel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This story is a total nonsense
    How do you stop a story like this once it has got rolling?
    There must be hundreds of articles about this on the web -ALL WRONG
    The paracitical world media just plagiarize from each other and never check the original story or sources
    So we get this garbage
    Total lies, crap and 'beat up' by amoral, dumb, lazy media, who never check facts.

    For the true story, which is much more interesting-
    See transcript here within the next week
    http://abc.com.au/mediawatch/
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