Planet Earth - Is it going too far?

Good series with stunning photography - especially the shark leaping out of the water, but I do wonder if it is becoming a little <u>too</u> graphic at times.</p>

Knowing that animals kill and eat each other, mostly but not always for food, is probably enough - the chase and the aftermath perhaps. But I am not sure I want to see a walrus tear into a struggling penguin's neck, or a fox run off with a snow goose chick that's crying for its parent, or similar close up scenes of animals suffering an obviously painful exit from the world, whether it's nature or not.</p>

Knowing what happens is educational, we need that. But I am not convinced we need the bloodthirsty and graphic spectacle of the endgame in a programme which has to be cleaned up for younger audiences the following week. I'm not sure what purpose it serves and it's starting to give me bloody nightmares!</p>

(And please spare me the slaughter of animals for human consumption. I acknowledge it goes on, but my point is whether we need to see this stuff close up)</p>

 

It really is a good point

I love the program, and the footage is second to none. But like you say, it does go a little too far. We know it goes on, but do we have to see it? Much the same as human murders. We know it goes on, but would you expect to see a real life murder on tv? Witnessing someone dying? Or even raped? I think not.</p>

Very good point though mate. </p>

 

No it isn't going too far. That's how the world is.

 

It's a case of needing another angle otherwise we've seen all this stuff before, they have to do something new and it's fascinating to watch.

We see dramas with ever more graphic violence in them, it's nature programmes mirroring those I suppose.

 

Yes, although its nature and happens all the time, graphic images of some poor deer being ripped apart when still alive is more than most people can take. I switch them off because as already mentioned the scenes dwell in your mind. There are some parts of Planet Earth that are not bad, like the item on the Rain Forest last week with the amazing pictures of Birds of Paradise and the millions of Fungii.

 

You want to see how your sausages,burgers and chicken nuggets

come from the animal. Watch Slaughterhouse - Task of Blood while tucking into said meat products. Not a pleasant sight seeing a cows throat being slit from ear to ear and seeing blood spurting out. Give me Planet Earth everytime, at least they have a chance.

 

Maybe it's the proof of what the narrator is saying? I wouldn't have quite believed that a Walrus would actually attack a penguin without seeing it for myself.

I watch the operations at work with fascination and hardly a flinch (removal of a cows eye the other day)but have to say, last nights Planet Earth did have me wincing slightly.

 

Well said. Too many people happy to keep their heads in

the sand and let someone else do the dirty work of killing the animals they eat.

 

Not me

I get a killer whale to kill all my sausages.

 

RE: Not me

How do you kill a sausage?

 

RE: Not me

No idea, I've not watched, I couldn't cope with the bloodshed.

 

Humanely ?

Sorry mate , couldn't resist !!

 

Not really so much how the animal is killed that worries me

about sausages and, particularly, chicken nuggets - it's the "mechanically retrieved, reconstituted" stuff that they use.

 

To kill a sausage

You must fry it. Or grill it if you're feeling healthy. All sausages are sold alive to preserve freshness.

 

No, no, no, no!

It's stabbed to death long before it's fried or grilled. Well, it is if my mother is cooking.

 

Reformed Scampi

worrying.

 

RE: Reformed Scampi

buy wholetail you oik.

 

I've never seen a Walrus attack a penguin either. Walrus's get a bad name if you ask me, just cos they listen to loud music and wear bright clothes.

 

RE: Reformed Scampi

I have never subjected myself to scampi of a 'reformed' nature you food snob.</p>