Baby bunny killed live on Danish radio program

[Kyriakos]

He's the Danish radio host who killed a baby rabbit live on air, in a stunt he said was designed to ignite debate about our meat eating habits.

Asger Juhl, a presenter on 24/7, hit the nine-week-old bunny, called Alan, repeatedly with an iron bike pump after a segment on the hypocrisy of animal rights campaigners who eat supermarket meat.

He's been widely criticised for the act. Now, Asger has told Newsbeat his side of the story.

Warning - this story contains themes some readers may find disturbing.

The host said: "I did it to show the hypocrisy in the debate. Many people are outraged by what I did, at the same time many of these people will eat meat. And when they eat meat, an animal will die.
Meat in a supermarket

"You cannot say: 'It's terrible to kill an animal' and then eat meat. These things are connected.

"And then we did it because we wanted to eat it. We ate it yesterday night. We had it for dinner. It was nice."
"Can I ask you a question? Do you see the problem in killing an animal and then eating it?"
Asger Juhl

He continued: "We are animals and we eat meat. That's the way it is, and we have to be confronted with the fact that animals die when we eat meat. This is just a fact of life."[...]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/32885963/interviewed-the-danish-dj-who-killed-a-rabbit-on-air

Echoing the previous such story from Denmark, and the Giraffe zoo massacre in front of elementary schoolers, RIP

Hm, supposedly the intent is to show that violence to animals routinely happens, and they are killed for food, etc, and people should not be ignorant of it or hypocritical etc.

But in my view their reasons are crap, and the action is indeed:

 

[GoodSarmatian]

It's a publicity stung, but the guy has a point. Still shouldn't have done it.

The "giraffe massacre" is a different thing. There were good reasons for it.

 

[Berzerker]

did he eat the bunny?

 

[Truthy]

He did. I don't really see why people are upset

 

[cybrxkhan]

Exactly how many animal rights activists are vegetarians/vegans, and how many aren't?

I call haram anyways, though as a longtime vegetarian despite not agreeing with his actions I do think he raises a point because frankly some folks will talk about loving animals and whatever and then having no qualms about meat.

 

[Yeekim]

I see no problem with what the guy did.

Also, I am one of those people who both loves animals and has no qualms about eating meat.

 

[The_J]

Not acceptable, due to the method of killing.
I like to assume that a professional butcher will kill an animal in a quick and painless way. Which is not exactly what happened here.
And that's the problem. Not the fact that animals are killed for meat.

 

[Tycho Brahe]

He knocked it the head with a bicycle pump, and broke it's neck.

Is that not quick and painless?

I'm danish, and I'm not to bothered about this. It's a bit of a gimmick, he just wan't the publicity, but I'm okay with eating meat.

Also, as a non muslim, I don't care about halal/haram.

 

[Kyriakos]

^That is haram too

And using a bicycle pump to kill the bunny is more thuggish than professional meat-preparer/butcher

 

[bhavv]

This reminds me when someone made a video of feeding a kitten to his pet snake.

I think I was the only person who couldn't understand what was wrong with that or why people were offended. He bought the kitten as food for his pet snake.

Do people get offended when their pet cats kill birds or mice?

 

[Kyriakos]

This reminds me when someone made a video of feeding a kitten to his pet snake.

I think I was the only person who couldn't understand what was wrong with that or why people were offended. He bought the kitten as food for his pet snake.

Do people get offended when their pet cats kill birds or mice?

I once killed tens of red ants by stomping, cause i was unpleasantly surprised when i found a yellow ant and decided to take it to the red ant's nest thinking they will show earnest interest in it, and instead ten of them immediately broke into its skin with their mandibles.

RIP ant-day massacre when i was 8 years old.

 

[Tycho Brahe]

My sister has two daughters, and got them some cute pet bunnies a few years ago.

The girls was not realy up for the task of taking care of the animals, so my sister had to do most of it herself. One of the little bunnies was attacked by a stupid cat. It survived, barely, and had to be taken down. You got to do what you got to do.

After a while they gave up on the bunny project entirely, when the girls realised that they adored the fluffy animals, but always forgot to feed them and put them in the shelter for the night.

 

[bhavv]

That would be the reason I couldn't own a pet, Id forget to feed it.

 

[NovaKart]

It's funny how the article gives a warning about disturbing material after it already told us what happened. And it's not like you couldn't tell from the title anyway.

I agree with the J. He beat the animal to death by hitting it repeatedly with a bicycle pump. He's not a professional butcher.

 

[bhavv]

So its a completely unethical slaughter, I can get that people would be opposed to the unnecessary pain inflicted on the animal, as opposed to draining its blood or chopping off its head.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

The "giraffe massacre" is a different thing. There were good reasons for it.

There were NO good reasons for killing Marius (yes, the giraffe had a name). He was a healthy giraffe, and the excuse the zoo gave was that they didn't have room for him. Well, there were other zoos and animal sanctuaries that offered to take Marius, but the Danish zoo refused. They were absolutely determined to kill and butcher this innocent animal that was healthy and had no behavioral problems.

This reminds me when someone made a video of feeding a kitten to his pet snake.

I think I was the only person who couldn't understand what was wrong with that or why people were offended. He bought the kitten as food for his pet snake.

Do people get offended when their pet cats kill birds or mice?

Are you referring to Luka Magnotta, who posted a video of himself feeding a live kitten to a snake? He made other kitten-killing videos, equally gruesome. One showed a kitten taped to a broom handle and drowned. The other showed a kitten being put into a plastic bag, and then Magnotta used a vacuum cleaner to suck all the oxygen out of the bag.

Magnotta was on an international watch list for a long time, but the police and Interpol dragged their heels long enough for Magnotta to take the next step that many sociopaths take: He murdered a human. Specifically, a Chinese exchange student named Jun Lin. After killing the man, Magnotta dismembered his body and mailed various body parts to different places around Canada. One was sent to Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Another part was mailed to an elementary school in British Columbia.

Magnotta then skipped the country. He was finally arrested in Berlin, Germany, and convicted of first-degree murder. He received a life sentence.


So... feeding a kitten to a snake is a despicable thing to do at any time. But if the individual you're referring to is Luka Magnotta, you're expressing approval of not only someone guilty of animal cruelty, but also murder.

That would be the reason I couldn't own a pet, Id forget to feed it.

Cats and dogs do have a habit of telling their humans when they're hungry. But since you approve of feeding kittens to snakes, yeah, I'd say it's a good thing that you don't own pets.

 

[azzaman333]

I don't really have a problem with it. From the article I read, it was a controlled killing and they did it to eat it, just timed the killing to bring it to attention.

 

[Kyriakos]

So its a completely unethical slaughter, I can get that people would be opposed to the unnecessary pain inflicted on the animal, as opposed to draining its blood or chopping off its head.

Btw:

 

[Valka D'Ur]

They killed a couple of lions, as well... another completely unnecessary act.

 

[Tahuti]

This reminds me when someone made a video of feeding a kitten to his pet snake.

I think I was the only person who couldn't understand what was wrong with that or why people were offended. He bought the kitten as food for his pet snake.

Do people get offended when their pet cats kill birds or mice?

I'd rather feed rabbits to snakes than kittens. Killing cats or having them killed just doesn't seem right.