The Radio24syv presenter was hosting a debate on animal welfare and said he carried out the killing to demonstrate the hypocrisy of animal campaigners who eat meat from supermarkets. Alan, a nine-week-old rabbit, was hit three times over the head with a bicycle pump by Asger Juhl. The rabbit apparently twitched several times before quietly dying.
Mr Juhl said he wanted to see whether he had become so attached to the rabbit by the end of the debate that he wouldn't be able to kill him. Linse Kessler, an activist who had been part of an earlier discussion, talked her way back into the studio to try to save Alan. She chased Mr Juhl around a table but did not manage to rescue the rabbit.
He has since taken the animal's carcass home and skinned it with his children who are aged six and eight. They are planning a dinner of rabbit ragout. Since the broadcast there has been an angry protest, with people calling for a boycott of the radio station and describing the presenter's behaviour as disgusting.
5 comments:
Provocative but what the hell do they think happens with the meat people eat?
He's not wrong. But wow did he go to extremes to prove his point.
Anonymous Dunex said...
Provocative but what the hell do they think happens with the meat people eat?
Well, generally, no animal should take more than one blow to die. The rabbit took three. That's the problem. Not so much that he killed it, but that he beat it to death as opposed to dispatching it quickly and humanely.
The radio presenter doesn't see that we do not lump animals bred for food together with animals bred to be sold as pets. Yes, we humans are the ones who made that distinction and it differs from culture to culture. However this distinction is one of the reasons why we do not feel sorry for the meat we eat.
Anyone has the the radio presenter's email address? I want to send this to him: http://i.imgur.com/40Idny0.png?1?fb
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