Why?
It's more dignified than what happens at a slaughterhouse or for that matter on a poultry-farm or a pork-factory.
And please keep in mind that not all can afford the luxury of becoming a vegan.
If the population of deer is not kept down, the population will grow with up to 300.000 deer a year in DK alone!
After a few years they can't find anything to eat in the forests, moors and meadows, and as such they have to get closer to people, into the towns and cities - and here they will encounter the top-predator: the car.
Apart from that, when there is a surplus population nature will cut the number in a very brutal way: starvation and decease. The youngest, the oldest and the sick will die first - over weeks. You don't die from starvation in a couple of hours.
So what is better? To close the eyes for how brutal nature is? Or in the absence of enough predators, show children how culling takes place and doing it in a way that is not as garish as butchering the animals?
Nature is not Disney. There is no agreement between the wilder beasts and the lions about "the law of the wild".
I believe if wildebeests and giraffes were able to vote, they would vote overwhelmingly for a motion to exterminate all lions.
Harsh words, I know. I'm an animal lover too, but since I live in the countryside I see with my own eyes what happens during ice-winters or when there are too many animals around.
We indeed need to know where food comes from. In native North American tradition, animals are slaughtered after giving thanks for sharing a life so that others may live. Death is never pretty, but as Muhler points out, the alternative is worse. Bravo Crown Prince and Princess for introducing your children to real life...and death.Oops.
Just came across an article in the same newspaper - "Bloody Mary's Little Dears".
"Bambi must seem like a hilarious comedy to Princess Mary's kids after this horror show."
Words in the reports include "slaughtered", "Christmas parade", "slain animals littered the palace lawn", the children "stared on wide-eyed".
(I read the newspaper from the back to the front - so now I see the point of the cartoon as posted above.)
A couple of photos are with the report.
(You may get your point of view in the paper if you email them at the Letters to the Editor section - anyone who wants to explain Danish traditions.)
But the "common person" in Denmark and the rest of the Nordic countries hunt too, you know...Lots of them. And the meat is eaten.The coverage is coming across as very hard and un-forgiving.
Perhaps in time, if Royals are concerned about being modern and in step with the common person, this will have to be let go of.
But the "common person" in Denmark and the rest of the Nordic countries hunt too, you know...Lots of them. And the meat is eaten.
Life is not Disney's Bambi and cartoons with Rudolf the reindeer. Where I live, it's not possible to serve British tourist local reindeer meat, because they can't eat "Rudolf the reindeer". If they were told it was veal (from a cute little calf), they would probably eat it quite happily.
Yesterday, I read about the first 100/500 (at the time) posts from Danes on BT facebook re the Australian article. "Get lost Aussies", or something similar, was the general reaction from the Danes. No criticism toward the Royals there, I'm afraid.
Indeed, it is not! Not every deer is Bambi's mother and the circle of life id essential for children to know. It is not as if the deer are culled and their carcases left to rot where they drop.I hate the hunt but seeing the children looking at the corps of those poor animals
It is not a human behaviour even if the princess Mary is elegant , it is a SHAME
Why?
It's more dignified than what happens at a slaughterhouse or for that matter on a poultry-farm or a pork-factory.
And please keep in mind that not all can afford the luxury of becoming a vegan.
If the population of deer is not kept down, the population will grow with up to 300.000 deer a year in DK alone!
After a few years they can't find anything to eat in the forests, moors and meadows, and as such they have to get closer to people, into the towns and cities - and here they will encounter the top-predator: the car.
Apart from that, when there is a surplus population nature will cut the number in a very brutal way: starvation and decease. The youngest, the oldest and the sick will die first - over weeks. You don't die from starvation in a couple of hours.
So what is better? To close the eyes for how brutal nature is? Or in the absence of enough predators, show children how culling takes place and doing it in a way that is not as garish as butchering the animals?
Nature is not Disney. There is no agreement between the wilder beasts and the lions about "the law of the wild".
I believe if wildebeests and giraffes were able to vote, they would vote overwhelmingly for a motion to exterminate all lions.
Harsh words, I know. I'm an animal lover too, but since I live in the countryside I see with my own eyes what happens during ice-winters or when there are too many animals around.
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I mean I also find the mass of meat at every supermarket disgusting, how much it is and how much more we waste it. We don't appreciate meat anymore (well I don't eat it, but you get the gist) and seen it as a given.
In case of the DRF then the meat ARE to sustain the family. The meat is being used to (state)dinners at the royal palaces. So it´s not just for the fun of it.Huntings like this aren't there to sustain the family with meat, it's fun for them.