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AR letter: better extinct than in captivity
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by tigers9 on August 26, 2007
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2003841459_satlets18.html
Letters to the Editor
August 18, 2007
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Feeding time in the wild
After an extremely silly utterance ("Unfortunately, all people won't be happy until our carnivores are eating salad"), Point Defiance Zoo interim veterinarian Kathleen Larson goes on about the "problem" of not being able to supply horse meat to the zoo's carnivores: "We don't have a lot of choices." ["Zoos in a pickle over horse meat," page one, Aug. 14.]
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=horsemeat14m&date=20070814
Here's a choice you might consider, Dr. Larson: Don't lock up carnivores so that they have to be fed.
Carnivores, like all wild animals, need to hunt and kill their own food, in their natural habitat. They cannot thrive or even endure in the close quarters of zoo captivity.
It is wrong to capture wild creatures and lock them up for our own "entertainment."
It's also wrong to attempt to breed these imprisoned animals in order to produce weird and unnatural, pale imitations of majestic beasts.
If we have destroyed the natural habitat of free-roaming animals, it's our problem and, certainly, our loss.
— Nancy Pennington, Seattle
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