"Shark Hunters": A Reprehensible Celebration of Torture
An Animal Rights Article from All-Creatures.org
FROM
Marc Bekoff,
Psychology Today - Animal Emotions
July 2014
If you can bear watching the horrific torture to which sharks are subjected and humans joyously celebrating their interminable pain then this series is for you.
For the past few days, while watching the Tour de France cycling race on NBCSN, there have also been advertisements for their series called "Shark Hunters" that premieres today, as if it's a sport. Their tagline is "The sharks are on the hook and there's money on the line."
A description of the program is: "The documentary-reality series features three East Coast shark tournaments – each more than a quarter century old – and highlights five captains battling against each other, the sharks, rough conditions and the Atlantic. Anglers from all over the world venture to the Northeast Atlantic to compete. Approximately 630 boats will have a collective six days to catch the biggest shark."
If you can bear watching the horrific torture to which sharks are subjected and humans joyously celebrating their interminable pain then this series is for you. In an earlier essay called "Sharks and Humans: A Much Needed Corrective" I noted that sharks are highly sentient beings who suffer just like our companion animals and there are people who have been attacked by sharks and are now advocates for these most amazing animals. For more on how to interact safely with sharks read about Dr. Erich Ritter's Shark School.
You can read another review of this reprehensible show by Rick Juzwiak here and you can protest "Shark Hunters" here. This sort of violence should not be tolerated. An analysis of this series would be an anthrozoologist's dream and nightmare.
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