What do you think about the baby Polar Bear that Animal Rights Activists wasnt to cull?

Question

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=443343&in_page_id=1766&ito=1490
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/ukyvideo?ch=1413899&cl=2153865&lang=','playerWindow','width=793,height=666,scrollbars=no

Animal rights Activists are calling for this young endangerd Polar Bear cub, named Knut, to be put down. Do you agree with their reasoning? (Copy/paste links to read the Daily Mirror article and the Yahoo!News Video)

I'm fully for keeping this young creature alive. there is nothing wrong with it's health, and it has EVERY right to live a full and potentially prosperous life

Answer 1

I think its absolutely gorgeous and should be given every chance to live...

Answer 2

This supposedly "AR activist" has no idea. Asylum seekers are not living too comfortably in detention centres, but would he suggest that we kill them all? I think not. So how can he suggest something similar in the case of non-human animals without being speciesist?

"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."

Interesting. So I suppose this bright "AR activist" would also leave abandoned human babies to die as well? Wouldn't they also die "in the wild"? Once again...speciesist.

True animal rights activists would never demand that any non-human animal be killed unless he is suffering from an incurable illness which causes severe pain.

For all we know, this idiot who suggested that the bear be killed could have been invented to create a “media hype”. In any case, what I’m sure of is that this self-styled “animal rights activist” is a fake.

I oppose zoos (unless the “zoos” are sanctuaries), but I would never suggest that animals kept at zoos be killed. Neither would any other real animal rights campaigner.

So please, don’t judge a whole movement on the actions of one individual who is not part of it. Would anyone claim that “human rights activists murder children” if someone falsely claiming that he is a human rights activist demands that a child be killed? I think not.

Animal rights campaigners don’t murder animals.

As to Mac's comment, the above indicates that far from wanting to kill orphans, true animal rights activists want to protect all vulnerable individuals, including the polar bear cub in question.

Answer 3

wow that was a lot of hooplah kenny,but i am with you....no one has the right to say how and when should anyone live or die..it's nobodies right to make a desition like that....those animals rights activists just dont have anything better to think of so yeah let's riot on this polar bear.....the bear may be a litle sick,but it's because it's alone all the time,has no activites,no interaction with anything,loneliness can be very stressing and depressing even for us human folk ,so now if the zoo could get another polar bear or just donate the p-bear to another zoo with other polar bear fellows then maybe it would make him/her feel better...but killing it that's just the dumbest idea i've ever heard of.and the ide f releasing it to the wild is dumb too because all this bear knows is that he gets fed and taken care of by someone...he won't be able to survive outthere,it would be like sending Paris to a remote island....and i thinkthat that would be unfair for the bear it's like giving him a death sentence.

Answer 4

I think it would be a good idea to have all the experts do a complete check up on the furry feller. Have a committee meeting afterward of the veterinarians, animal therapists and psychologists. Make up a forged death certificate and call a meeting of the lunatic animal rights fanatics. Give each of them a copy of little bears death certificate and each of them their own lethal injection.
I don't know how long this furry critter will live but please keep track of him and the information on the lunatic fanatics announcement that he should die. When someone wants to make a coat out of him you can remind the loonies that the bear already died way back in 2007 at the request of some of their predecessor lunatics.
Poor little bear can't defend himself from the people who used to defend little bears....... The world has gone nuts!...... No I got it..... The animal rights activists are liberals and they think the little bear is a Republican. Let's get Ann Coulter in on this, I bet she likes little bears. She will save him from those mean old Libbers.

Answer 5

I think the activists should be petitioning the zoo to have the bear transferred to another zoo that has an integration or in-breeding programme for polar bears - after all they are an endangered species - Chester zoo had one loan polar bear when I was much younger, it looked demented, scrawny and in pain all the time because it was alone and that was just cruel.

Answer 6

I'm with you....it's still a life! Next they'll be asking why don't we kill human babies of single mothers who died in childbirth and have no other family.

This is extreme animal rights activists nonsense! Especially if the cub was bred in the zoo and only knows the zoo. There's no way it could survive in the wild.

I'm all for animal rights, especially the first one.....the right to LIVE!

Answer 7

I agree. Normally animal right activists are screaming for animals to be kept alive. I think it just shows how hypocritical they are!!!

I feel that as long as the cub is kept in good health and the zoo understand how best to care for him, then he has the right to be given a chance at life.

Answer 8

I agree.

Many so called 'Animal Rights' activists are just trouble makers and ignorant of how animals should be treated.

(Like 'freeing' animals which have been brought up in captivity and have no experience of fending for themselves).

The cub has a right to life, he can be taught to fend for himself before being released into the wild.

Answer 9

I think they are a bunch of nut jobs and the cute lil polar bear should live. There is nothing wrong with the bear and it is in good health

Answer 10

I think this sums up Animal Rights Activists they really do have no idea and comments like this really do not help their cause. What next, let's kill orphans !!!!

Answer 11

I hope it gets to live a good long life. Those activists are cruel and unjust.