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urbpanZookeepers feed surplus zoo animals to their families
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danish zookeepers slaughtered animals in their care, including more than 50 muskrats, and served the meat to unsuspecting friends and family until zoos changed their rules, newspaper Ekstra Bladet reported Friday.
"A single muskrat serves up to four people. You just have to avoid saying what it is before your family has eaten it because it sounds disgusting," elephant keeper Peter Jensen was quoted as saying.
Nobody at Copenhagen Zoo, home to 3,300 animals and 264 species, was available for comment.
The zookeepers also feasted on antelope and gaur, the newspaper said.
"It's always a success when you can serve you friends something special," zookeeper Nikolai Rhod said, adding he had also eaten rabbits, pigs and chicken from the petting zoo.
Zookeepers in Denmark used to slaughter animals for meat until a zoo crackdown last year under which anyone caught doing so would face disciplinary action. Such practices did not break Danish law.
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danish zookeepers slaughtered animals in their care, including more than 50 muskrats, and served the meat to unsuspecting friends and family until zoos changed their rules, newspaper Ekstra Bladet reported Friday.
"A single muskrat serves up to four people. You just have to avoid saying what it is before your family has eaten it because it sounds disgusting," elephant keeper Peter Jensen was quoted as saying.
Nobody at Copenhagen Zoo, home to 3,300 animals and 264 species, was available for comment.
The zookeepers also feasted on antelope and gaur, the newspaper said.
"It's always a success when you can serve you friends something special," zookeeper Nikolai Rhod said, adding he had also eaten rabbits, pigs and chicken from the petting zoo.
Zookeepers in Denmark used to slaughter animals for meat until a zoo crackdown last year under which anyone caught doing so would face disciplinary action. Such practices did not break Danish law.
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Date: 2005-06-22 03:13 pm (UTC)Heh.
That news article shows yet another in a long line of illogical and random distinctions we humans make about the kinds of things we find acceptable to eat vs. those we find horrifying to even consider eating.
Reminds me of the time a coworker found a dead songbird on his way to work in the morning. He thought he should take it home (somewhere in the suburbs) to bury it. But he didn't want it to get smelly during the day, so he put it in a tupperware-type container in the refridgerator. Not the most common thing to do, but it seems fairly understandable to me. However, there were several people who complained loudly about the "dead bird" in the refridgerator, right next to THEIR food! What kind of food did they have? Roasted chicken, grilled fish, ham sandwiches... I suppose they would have been fine with it if he had stuck the bird in the microwave for a few minutes before he put it in the fridge...
-Turtle
who, for some weird reason, had the image of earthworms being chopped up in the blender and making a shake out of them stuck in her head last night before bed.