Should documentary producers intervene in nature?

mkpdavies · 13-11-2006, 07:20 PM

http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thre...643&#paginator

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Should film-makers end the suffering of injured animals?

The BBC’s Planet Earth has sparked debate after members of the crew saved a baby penguin that was trapped down a hole, but did not end the suffering of an injured polar bear.

In the latest episode, viewers were shown groundbreaking footage of an elephant being hunted by a pride of 30 lions, but again no-one intervened.

Do wildlife documentaries go too far? Should the Planet Earth team have saved a baby penguin? Or should they leave animals to die naturally? Send us your comments.

That penguin should have been left. Think of the thousands of fish it will go on to masacre!!!

Will somebody think of the fish!

I'd have saved it too.

Hartlepool · 13-11-2006, 07:50 PM

Yeh,I know you would,then you would of probably eaten it when we weren't looking.

I love Penguins too.

C_steam · 13-11-2006, 08:20 PM

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I love Penguins too.

any chocolate bar does it for me.

And on the subject of fish - how come I can't buy cans of tuna friendly dolphin?

Hartlepool · 13-11-2006, 08:25 PM

Mahi Mahi fish is Dolphin fish.

Best fish too,you can buy it down south.

C_steam · 13-11-2006, 08:35 PM

I've eaten dolphin in Japan - damn tasty.

NickIrons · 14-11-2006, 12:16 AM

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Originally Posted by C_steam

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I love Penguins too.

any chocolate bar does it for me.

And on the subject of fish - how come I can't buy cans of tuna friendly dolphin?

Check out Dennis Leary's "No cure for Cancer"
DVD, ..................

Animal Right's "Don't eat the Tuna fish"
Leary "Why"
Animal Right's "Dolphins are getting stuck in the nets"
Leary "I like eating Tuna fish"
Animal Right's "You can buy rod and line caught Tuna"
Leary "Save the dolphins and f**k the Tuna then"

kernow · 14-11-2006, 12:37 AM

Personally these days I never watch wildlife programs. I know Lions drag down and kill Zebra for food, I know these things are a fact of life and death but I think it takes an odd sort of person who enjoys watching it on TV. People who get a thrill out of watching one animal butcher another In my book are no better than the sleazy types who watch couples from behind a bush having sex in a park!

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13-11-2006, 07:50 PM	#2 (permalink)
Hartlepool Uber Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: North East England Posts: 6,814 Party: Popular Democrats	Yeh,I know you would,then you would of probably eaten it when we weren't looking. I love Penguins too.

13-11-2006, 08:25 PM	#4 (permalink)
Hartlepool Uber Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: North East England Posts: 6,814 Party: Popular Democrats	Mahi Mahi fish is Dolphin fish. Best fish too,you can buy it down south.

13-11-2006, 08:35 PM	#5 (permalink)
C_steam Super Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Paddling up 5hit creek..... Posts: 7,788	I've eaten dolphin in Japan - damn tasty.

14-11-2006, 12:37 AM	#7 (permalink)
kernow Uber Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 5,182	Personally these days I never watch wildlife programs. I know Lions drag down and kill Zebra for food, I know these things are a fact of life and death but I think it takes an odd sort of person who enjoys watching it on TV. People who get a thrill out of watching one animal butcher another In my book are no better than the sleazy types who watch couples from behind a bush having sex in a park!