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Link: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcasting/a45665/blue-peter-sorry-for-g...

The story isn't as interesting as the headline suggests, but to match the headline, it would need to be an absolutely amazing story. Unicorns would probably be involved.

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subtractadddivide wrote on Apr 25, '07

I'd rather kids (er, sorry children) saw that, rather than some games review or details of someone new on the charts - That stuff happens - it's not wrong that they should be aware of the fact.

drcurry wrote on Apr 25, '07, edited on Apr 25, '07

Oh, fer gawd's sake! What Andrew said - children need to see death - we're all going to die at some point, and to pretend otherwise is absurd. The death of animals, whether beloved pets or, much less traumatically, some distant animal on television or film, provides a great starting point to talk about the subject.

obfuscatedhonesty wrote on Apr 25, '07, edited on Apr 25, '07

To play the devil's advocate, from a similar perspective; sex is an integral part of life. Should children be shown hardcore pornography? Surely it would not be too terrible a thing for childhood innocence to be maintained a little bit longer?

drcurry wrote on Apr 25, '07, edited on Apr 25, '07

This was not some prolonged, bloody close-up of the slaughter, but a discreet long shot (reportedly). How many of the children watching have not seen a lion running down an antelope?

It is wrong for children to see pornography, but we show them animals mating all the time on the nature channels.

obfuscatedhonesty wrote on Apr 25, '07

It could be argued that there's a difference between violence between animals and a ritual slaughter by humans.

Either way, I think we're digressing from the sheer splendour of the article title.

halfsure wrote on Apr 26, '07

Sadly, there remain many who view this as a ceremony distinct from their everyday; an everyday that for most involves pointing out a morsel and saying "that one, please".

Therein is a disconnect between what is customary and what is ordained.

imply wrote on Apr 26, '07

Food preparation (and I include religious symbolism as a subset) is the starkest example of how civilization has made hypocrites of us all.

"No animals were harmed in the making of this film" ... except for the ones we bloody well ate!

unabubba wrote on Apr 26, '07

Just like the movies never show people who are shot dead flailing about like headless chickens for several minutes or wounded men screaming for hours.

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