It has nothing to do with eating animals, just how they killed them.
Slowly poking an elephant to death as it desperately pulls out the spears, until finally it gets stabbed in the eye and face 5 times in 2 seconds and collapses because it gives up is pretty rough.
Modern slaughter techniques are basically instant death, quick and relatively painless, far less suffering.
As for animals not having much room to move around in farms, they don't need to move. In nature they only move at all because the food in front of them gets eaten and they have to move to more food. We just keep putting food in front of farm animals so they don't need to move. Many cows are let outside for brief periods, often times they just go back inside because they don't like the weather.
Would you rather
A. live in a concentration camp until you reach adolescence and get executed via a slit to your throat, or
B. Live your life like normal but randomly get jumped by a gang at some unknown point during your life and get stabbed 60 times
I think most would pick B
Yeah man It's totally bad-ass when people are maimed and killed in environments with no modern medical care for my amusementThat hippo had them on the edge of their toes. There was a good shot where the hippo tried to get a bite in, man a live it's easy to see how they kill so many people. Took a real fight to get it down too.
Would have been bad ass to see the elephant grab some one and just throw them in the air; spears flying in, people being thrown about like rag dolls. Would be entertaining
Yeah, we should do battle with the beasts we eat. It gives us an appreciation for what it is. I kind of feel like an asshole eating meat from the supermarket. If I had to do this shit to get it, I probably wouldn't be vegetarian, but I'd eat meat less and respect it more.Why is it depressing? It's not like they're pumping the animals full or hormones and butchering them in a disrespectful way. This should be the way everyone gets their meat, I find it kind of uplifting.
This is the first time that I've seriously contemplated becoming a vegetarian.
The best case scenario is allowing the animal to live in an open environment. And then kill it swiftly when the time is right to harvest the meat.Why is it depressing? It's not like they're pumping the animals full or hormones and butchering them in a disrespectful way. This should be the way everyone gets their meat, I find it kind of uplifting.
It's not like they were attacked by lions in their sleep.Yeah man It's totally bad-ass when people are maimed and killed in environments with no modern medical care for my amusement
While the loss of human life is regrettable, seeing some africans ragdolling through the air like a goddamn chinese kung fu flick would be hella fuckin' balls-to-the-walls awesome!
I don't see the problem with this video. What am I supposed to be depressed about?
That damn music was ridiculous. The actual content though I really just saw it as any other nature movie. Lions have to eat, they sink teeth into young gazelles necks. Just how nature works.
Big cats are often very humane killers believe it or not. They go right for the quick kill.
What did you expect? Meat doesn't grow on trees.
Still sad to see an intelligent dignified creature meet such a slow and gruesome end.
And if you did it with the people you lived with and cared about, your convictions would adapt to your people because we are in many ways social creatures. And while you did it, you'd be blinded with adrenaline. And when you were done, you'd feel the relief and accomplishment together with the others. And while you were eating it, you'd feel pretty damn good because nutrition does that, especially after periods of strong hunger. And when you saw your people survive in good strength because of your efforts, you'd feel damn good about being a hunter.I don't resent these people for killing it though, don't get me wrong. If I had to choose between starvation and killing an elephant for food, I'd be the first person lining up to throw a spear in the poor bastards eye.
It's not like they were attacked by lions in their sleep.
They chose to attack an elephant, so it's fair game.
Live by theswordspear, die by theswordtusk.
I don't see much of a difference whether a lion is killed by its would-be prey or a indigenous human hunter.
Edit: Scratch that, I see no difference at all. Human life isn't sacred or anything.
I'm actually really impressed at the distance and accuracy those guys got with the spear throws.
Spoken like a true nerd who has never left his basement.
Atleast they hunt with spears for food and such, not some pussy ass hunter with a gun sitting in a fucking tree (hunting for food or not, doesn't matter bunch of cowards).
yea never saw the point in big game hunting either but as long as they are following the posted laws and regulations I have no real problem with it. I'd rather go deer hunting then big game hunting in africa.All things considered, shit like this is even more depressing.
*sigh* I don't know, I guess trophy hunting just makes zero sense to me. I'd feel terrible inflicting that kind of pain on an animal.
Killing with a single bullet isn't better than hunting an animal down for hours on end using ten-foot spears?
mhmm.... have fun: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSqgmqv1qpA
I don't know French... any bombshells amongst the dialogue there? What do they do with all those chicks?