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Denmark Wants Your Pet… for Lion Food
65 Plays1 month ago
So apparently in Denmark, zoos are asking people to donate their pets—yes, actual rabbits, chickens, even small horses—to feed their predators. I spiral. There’s a lynx. And a giraffe named Marius. Danish people… what is going on?
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Introduction to Danish News
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Speaker
Alright people, we're going to be talking about some of my favorite people, the happiest people in the world, the most Danish people in the world. That's right, the people from Denmark.
00:00:13
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Actually, not so much about the people from Denmark, but about this news from Denmark. ah this is This is something I read this morning and I just, you know, i put aside everything else that's important and that has to be done today because I just, I felt the need to talk to someone about it ah right.
00:00:33
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And you you have been designated to listen to this. Here is the actual
Zoo's Unconventional Request
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headline. It says Denmark Zoo asks people to donate unwanted pets to feed predators and imitate the natural food chain.
00:00:53
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That's right. And we're going to be talking about this. All right. So the the article that I read has this nice, lovely picture of a lion there. I mean, nice and lovely is the I don't know how to describe this. The lion, it kind of looks lonely. I think it's a good picture. Kind of, you know, it's just kind of like lonely and and hungry, possibly, mainly because it's stuck in a zoo in an artificial environment.
00:01:20
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And I think you know it's just he's poor guy he's just like you know just sadness in his eyes he look at him right like he's just got this feeling of like you just feel bad for this lion and and part of me just kind of it just it wants to pet him
00:01:40
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But he's kind of looking like he wants to eat your pet. um And so it's a good picture that goes along. Lions are among the captive predators in the Allborg Zoo in northern Denmark.
00:01:53
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That's the caption under the photo. It's just, yes, good. um Maybe if they were in captive. All right. ah So here's the actual news. are I'm going to read this whole thing because it's it's awesome.
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All right.
Purpose Behind Pet Donations
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A zoo in northern Denmark is asking pet owners to donate their unwanted guinea pigs, rabbits, chickens, and even small horses.
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Even small horses. Not to put them on display, but to feed them to the zoo's predators. So I guess... I've never seen guinea pigs really be guinea pigs like you know if you get what I mean like they're actual guinea pigs in this situation but even small horses I get why Danish people are probably the happiest people in the world like if they are if they can afford to have small horses as pets in their house good on them man.
00:02:48
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Like i I love pets. I like the idea of pets. But in an apartment life, I can't even think of getting like a small dog or a cat because it's just so much extra work. It's a responsibility, right?
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and um
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And these people are going around with small horses. That is awesome. I wonder if i if my wife just came back from holidays. She's coming back in a couple of days. If she just walked in and I had like a small horse.
00:03:16
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Yeah. in the house just you know just go hey babe i i thought we'd get a pet and zayan will probably love it my little kid he'd probably like this so i should do that if i could afford it all right that'd be stopped but it goes on okay so it's a facebook post which um which is interesting that they're still using facebook but that that's cool we're not judging we're not judging we're totally judging It's trying to imitate the natural food chain, blah, blah, blah.
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Chickens, rabbits, and guinea pigs form an important part of the diet of our predators. So some of these predators like KFC and shit. All right. It wrote in the post alongside an image of open-mounted, sharp-tuted lynx.
00:03:59
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Oh, they put a lynx. What the hell is a lynx? A lynx is kind of like that deer kind of stuff, right? So, oh, no, no, no. Oh, oh, I did not know that's what a lynx That is what a Lynx, it kind of looks like a, what is this?
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It's like a half cheetah, a cat someone owns, but like it became too big or something. All right, so they used the Lynx in their post. um This article just used a lion instead.
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They went one better.
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So um that way it goes on. The post goes on.
Ethical Concerns About Pets as Prey
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That way nothing goes to waste and we ensure natural behavior, nutrition and well-being of our predators. ah Maybe not the well-being of the other animals.
00:04:44
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uh the zoo's sad the zoo added this bit okay um and we ensure naturally this is um this is one of those crazy human things we do where we create these artificial problems and then we have to kind of go we got to make it more like natural nature and natural because otherwise this doesn't work and then in that artificial environment they're trying to recreate this shit when it we didn't just if we just stopped we didn't touch it yeah I'm not completely anti-zoo. I get like, you know, there's probably some benefits of doing a humane zoo of some kind, but way too often. All right. Okay.
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Let's keep going, man. I love this bit. Okay. Here we go. Concentrate, Sal. Okay. On his website, the zoo said, so they also use their website, the donated animals will be gently euthanized by trained staff before being served up as food.
00:05:37
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Ha, ha, ha, ha. ah Sorry. This is horrible. I should not be laughing at this. And it's just part of what makes us human and animals and in the animal kingdom.
00:05:48
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But gently unionized. I love that one. What are they doing? Are they kind of like just petting the guinea pig as they inject it and put it to sleep? And what is the violent euthanizing situation? Is that actually happening out there? Like there's just these mad.
00:06:10
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vets with like long injections and just attacking the animals going this is not a gently euthanized shit that we're doing by train staff this is great it's the wording before being served up as food oh the zoo is home to carnivorous predators such as the that the lynx samaritan tiger yeah show-offs um all right the zoo's request has drawn lively debate online with some protesting the idea of turning pets into prey and others praising the zoo's efforts to maintain natural feeding behavior so you guys out there some of you ah think this sounds good uh the zoo claims right like it claims that it's been going on and is common practice in denmark
00:06:56
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Danish people, man. Danish people. We're going to come back to common practices of Danish people in a second. But um for many years, this is the ah this is the deputy director going, for many years at the zoo, we have fed our carnivores with smaller livestock.
Zoo's Justification and Ethical Reflection
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Yes, of course you have to. When keeping carnivores, it is necessary to provide them with meat, preferably with furs, preferably with fur bones etc to give them as natural a diet as possible oh man it's like it's not cooked it's just like we kill you we throw you oh you know when you hear these things out loud it sounds insane it sounds horrific but i know that's how we live i'm not a vegan yeah I have tried once in my life to be a vegan. It's not happening, but oh, it goes on.
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Therefore, it makes sense to allow animals that need to be euthanized for various reasons to be of use in this way. That is the only point where I go, hmm, maybe maybe they they're on to something.
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If your pet had to be put down and then it was done, it's probably like a good way to take care of nature, feed it back into nature.
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It reminds me of how there's this phenomena, not phenomena, like this thing I read about how if you get buried, you can have yourself buried under a tree or a plant, and then that plant grows from the nutrition of your body, and you know you give back to the world. So in that context, this sounds beautiful.
00:08:33
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But try explaining that to little Timmy, whose dog has just had to be put down. Oh, oh, and just telling him, listen, we're going to put your dog into the zoo and then a lion's going to eat that dead body. if We're not going to bury it. It's going rip. ah It just it sounds they're missing the point that pets.
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means something to the people who had them. um I think that part is just completely like forgotten. and But then is it the same as like me donating my body parts to to other people after I die um so they can live on?
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Is it a beautiful? I don't know. I actually don't know where I stand on this.
00:09:17
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Oh, in Denmark, it goes on. I hope you're still with me. In Denmark, this practice is common and many of our guests and partners appreciate the opportunity to contribute.
00:09:29
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So maybe some people are up for this shit. They don't love their pets. I bet if pets could read this stuff, they'd be looking at their owners going, bitch, you ain't doing that to my body after I die. um The livestock we receive as donations are chicken, rabbits, guinea pigs, and horses.
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Horses, they really keep... Bringing that up, the horses stuff. um It's not the first time Denmark zoos have come under
Historical Context of Euthanizing Animals
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scrutiny. Ooh, why? Because in 2014, the Copenhagen Zoo in the Danish capital euthanized a healthy young giraffe named Marius.
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Oh, my God. To avoid inbreeding. what Oh, so they, oh, their inbreeding is unethical for them. But euthanizing a healthy young giraffe isn't.
00:10:17
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That is horrific. Despite a petition trying to stop the move. So they, they this isn't, oh, this is a whole different level. um They didn't take a dying giraffe that needed to be.
00:10:29
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They took a healthy, ooh, healthy young giraffe. marius is that how you say this name it had a name it had a personality it had a future and it was euthanized to avoid inbreeding its carcass was used partly for research i don't think it was ready for research right then and partly to feed carnivores at the zoo lions tigers and leopards oh animal kingdom man
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Weeks later, public criticism flared again when the zoo euthanized four of those lions. So the lions that euthanized a giraffe and fed it were then euthanized to make way for a new male in hopes to breed a new generation of cubs.
00:11:11
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Oh man, these guys take their um whole Darwinism stuff real seriously. It's like, I don't want to get old in Denmark. Like what? Oh God. Oh, listen.
00:11:23
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There's so much more stuff about Danish people um that we can cover. But you know what? I think this this whole bit has just been enough for us for today. ah That was the news.
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I don't know how it feels. I just feel like, again, if zoos don't exist, then we won't do this. But now we're in this situation.
Conclusion: Mixed Feelings on Practices
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when These predators have to be fed. and i ah But your pets.
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ah The pets. that just It kills me. It probably kills them too. oh god okay all right I'm going to stop there. Thank you for watching. That was the news.
00:11:57
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Danish people are on a different planet. They're the happiest people. But for God knows what reasons. um right Take care.