animal cruelty

I don't know what you're getting at. Had they tortured it before killing it for the sole purposes of their entertainment, that would've been animal cruelty. It was handled the best way possible imho.

I agree, and check out todays news - fakery galore on this pathetic, pointless show. Setting up a water pool is one thing (producers just need to be honest about that) but at no point was it necessary to cause that crocodile such an agonising death at all let alone for tv "entertainment". They've even been caught out for shipping-in 2 baby crocs just to butcher one for tv entertainment. They said they shipped-in crocs so as not to mess with the eco system. Er how about not being there, ****** all over that island in the first place you *****!
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I don't see it as animal cruelty. They killed it quickly, minimising any suffering it may have felt, and they did it so they could eat. I appreicate that elements of the show are set-up, but you can't fake them losing the weight they are clearly losing by not eating. On Bear Grylls' other shows, he acknowledges that situations ar set up so he can demonstrate what you should do if in that situation. So although the situation is artificially created, he still has to deal with it, whether it's crossing a frozen river or jumping down a waterfall.

Why isn't anyone complaining about the cormorant that was killed? Presumably because it was already in pain? What about the fish they've killed, or the snails? It all amounts to the same thing - they're killing so they can survive. It's the food chain. They weren't going to eat the Stone Fish, but it was still killed. Don't see many complaints about that. Just because the Cayman was a large animal that may or not have been put there specifically for that purpose, they still had to catch it, kill it, skin it, etc and that's what they did because they needed the food. Lets not forget that cows, chickens, lambs, etc, etc, etc are bred SPECIFICALLY to be killed and put on supermarket shelves. Think about how much of that is then thrown out because it is past a sell-by date. That is needless. This was necessary. The show is about surviving in the wild. That obviously involves killing and eating animals. Nobody is making you watch it.

I guess, like me, as an animal lover you also watch wildlife programs? Who are you rooting for when the crocodile attacks the baby wildebeast drinking at the water pool? The crocodile is killing to survive. They don't need to show it on the program, we can all assume the croc gets his dinner, but they show it and we watch and nobody complains that it's animal cruelty. It's the same thing. Ever walk past a butchers window and complain about how he's butchering the animals? Same thing.

It's entertainment to us becuase we're watching it as a tv show. To the guys on the island, they're doing it because they're starving. You can argue that by being there they're upsetting the eco system, but I'm more frustrated at the amount of garbage thrown overboard by ships that gets washed up on the beaches. That's worse for the eco system because that probably results in the death of lots of fish and birds which are dying for no reason since there's nobody there to eat them!

Are you a vegetarian? Even if you are, at one point in your life I know you ate meat. The animals that died for that meat are treated way worse in the factory farms they grow up in before they are killed to make your food, leather, suede, ect.

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