A Danish Radio Station Debate
When Elmer Fudd cried
"I'll kill that Wabbit"
it cannot be denied
that viewers laughed at it.
Because, at what they were looking
was a cry of desperation
not the first step in cooking
some elaborate rabbit preparation.
After sitting down to eat, we all
become something of a cannibal,
and ,as Only God Can Make a Tree,
so even a vegetarian might feel similarly.
And, since inevitably we are sinners,
let us, at least, respect our dinners,
and as we think or say our Grace
give thanks we're not in their place.
For only a dope ,
I'm sure ,
could ever hope,
like the old-time ad for Ivory Soap,
to be 99 and 44/100' ths percent pure.
hzl
5/27/15
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A radio station in Denmark argued Tuesday that it was merely fulfilling its public service mandate to provoke debate when the host of a morning show beat a baby rabbit to death with a bicycle pump this week during a live discussion of animal welfare.
Jorgen Ramskov, the editor in chief of Radio 24syv, a private station supported by fees from listeners, explained in an email that the killing of a nine-week-old rabbit named Allan during a broadcast on Monday was intended to highlight the Danish public’s “hypocrisy when it comes to animal welfare.”
Audio of the killing during the Danish-language program was made available on the broadcaster’s website.
News of the rabbit’s killing inflamed opinion on social networks, perhaps in part because Asger Juhl, the host who clubbed and strangled the rabbit, was pictured with Allan before and after the killing in two video clips posted on the station’s Facebook page.
In the first clip, Mr. Juhl was seen petting the live rabbit in the studio.
The second clip showed what the station described as meat from Allan’s body cooking on a stove before Mr. Juhl and Kristoffer Eriksen, the morning show’s co-host, ate it.
“At least in Denmark,” Mr. Ramskov said Tuesday, “we seem to regard animal welfare as a nice thing for certain animals — and frankly don’t care when it comes to normal livestock: cows, pigs, lambs, chickens.”
Danes, he added, have a voracious appetite for meat, but “consumers do not hesitate to buy cheap meat in stores without asking questions about the life or death of the animal — meat from chickens, pigs, cows and sheep that have not led dignified or pleasant lives.”
“To take the life of an animal brings about a strong emotional response in vast segments of the public,” Mr. Ramskov noted. “It was important to us that the rabbit would not suffer, and it was put down according to careful instructions by a professional animal caretaker from a Danish zoo.”
Speaking to Britain’s Sky News, he argued: “I think this rabbit had a very decent life. It was taken good care of, it had a nice life and it was killed in a decent way.”
The station’s high-minded description of the debate was perhaps undermined slightly by its choice of Linse Kessler, a Danish reality star known for her enormous fake breasts, to argue the animal-rights case during the show. After Ms. Kessler realized that Mr. Juhl intended to kill Allan, she chased the host around the studio, trying to free the rabbit, but ultimately failed.
In a Facebook update headlined “R.I.P. Little Allan,” translated by The Local, Ms. Kessler said that she understood the point the station was trying to make about the hypocrisy of meat eaters, but still called the stunt “wrong.”
While there was quite a bit of fury online about what quickly became known on Twitter as #Allangate, there was also some support for the station’s point.
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