Last night we watched an excellent documentary film about life
in the even chillier Arctic & Antarctic. One of the most dramatic scenes
was of a group of orca preying on seals in a very synchronised and intelligent
way, almost to Olympic standards. The villainous and cruel orca were shown in contrast to the poor helpless
seal with its big brown eyes and cute whiskers. Except that, before the orca arrived,
the seal was sitting on an ice flow with blood on its own muzzle, clearly
having recently preyed on some other hapless creature further down the food
chain. And both deaths will have been relatively quick and painless compared to that of
the millions of fish and crustaceans trawled from the sea in vast nets for human consumption, or indeed that of those prisoners of war abused and tortured to
death by their captors.
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