Zoos

Prager: After you've seen animals out in the wild, you'll never want to see them caged in a zoo again.

Well, that's nice, and I'm sure you're right, but sadly not all of us can afford to go see them in the wild. Many refuse to afford to go see them in the wild. Kids with such parents will never see them at all unless their schools drag them off on an annual zoo trip. I don't like the schools and I think they have plenty of money and they're not teaching what they ought to but I'm definitely in favor of expanding kids' horizons with a trip to the zoo.

Besides, if they never see them in the zoo, their only recourse is to see one of the charming "animal eats animal" shows on Animal Planet of NatGeo, and I say shows like those are basically garbage. Chase a wildebeest, pull the wildebeest to the ground, rip up the wildebeest. And we don't worry about teaching cruelty to animals this way? Why not?