Originally Posted By barboy ........but this one takes the cake: while waiting for notorization services at the US Consulate here in SE Asia I just happened to notice that one TV in the large lobby was airing the Disney Channel. I saw what looked like a modern day version of the Jungle Book, in cartoon of course. The native island boy(the protagonist to the story, I believe) waded in very shallow, crystal clear water looking to "spear" fish--------I mean that is what tribes/peoples have been doing for centuries to feed themselves, right?!? But according to Disney not this time. I guess tribes no longer actually SPEAR/IMPALE the fish that they are trying to catch and ultimately eat; they merely extract fish from lagoons via a multi pronged stick as if it were used as a crude shovel. You see this way our young are not exposed to violence against animals. Yes kids, fishing for food means you can never harm the fish.
Originally Posted By Donny My family has a steak house in Arizona so we had a small cattle ranch in the north where we would skin our own meat.A very nice teacher asked my wife if it was necessary for my kids to go see how meat is taken from the cow,after talking to the kids about whether they had a problem with this we found out that the teacher asked my daughter not to explain the process to other students which seemed ok by me but it does show the disconnect people have about how meat is made
Originally Posted By barboy .....can't say that I know who/what produced it. But I noticed the Disney Channel label on the lower screen and overtones of the the late 1960's Disney animated feature 'Jungle Book'. Back to my point: repackaging reality to make it more palatable shows cowardice and insincerity. Societal PC denatures facts.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Of course, in every version of the Jungle Book, the boy is raised by animals who befriend him, including a bear and panther and wolves who do not attack each other. Spearing or not spearing fish is the least of your worries if realism is what you're after.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip Next you're going to tell me that Rocky and Bullwinkle couldn't really talk!!
Originally Posted By Dabob2 "Spearing or not spearing fish is the least of your worries if realism is what you're after." Touché! (turtle. Who could talk).
