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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-02-09 11:36 PM
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I watch the Discovery Channel's 'Man vs Wild' for the gross-out factor.....
Edited on Mon Nov-02-09 11:40 PM by marmar
...... but does it bother anyone else that crazy-ass Bear Grylls kills and eats animals that were minding their own business?


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paulsby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-02-09 11:43 PM
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1. as an omnivore myself...
nope.

what else are animals doing before we kill them and eat them?

at least the animals that bear eats have lived a free life in the wild, vs. caged in some filthy pen.

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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-02-09 11:45 PM
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2. He demonstrates survival situations
you have to have protein when you are expending energy like that.

He's not taking more than he can eat at the time, so I don't have a problem with it. Sometimes, he even scavenges kills other animals have made if the kill is fresh enough.
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crim son Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-02-09 11:49 PM
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3. Not more than it bothers me that people eat meat they buy at the store.
Bear Grylls has taught me many things, for example, slug guts are very bad for you, and an intact snakeskin makes a great urine storage container (if you're ever lost in the desert).
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-03-09 12:21 AM
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5. What do you need to store urine for?
I hope the answer isn't drinking.
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-03-09 12:40 AM
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6. Urine is sterile. It can be reused in an emergency situation.
Edited on Tue Nov-03-09 12:47 AM by YOY
If you're lost at sea I recommend a little recycling as opposed to drinking sea water. You can rinse out wounds with it. You can use it to cure leather too in a pinch.

Now feces? I really can't think of too many uses.

You know...I think there was actually something about drinking urine in the Peace Corps' "Where there is no Doctor" book. I loved that thing,
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-03-09 12:52 AM
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7. Well,
it's good to know if things ever got to that point. But I don't plan on becoming lost in the desert or lost at sea or even putting myself in situations which could end up like that.
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-03-09 12:58 AM
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8. It's like knowing how to cut off blood loss from a severed limb
Edited on Tue Nov-03-09 01:00 AM by YOY
by making a makeshift tourniquet with a leather belt...sure it's gross to think about but you never know if you can save a life with it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_There_is_No_Doctor
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crim son Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-03-09 10:35 AM
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10. I'm afraid that is indeed the answer.
He actually drank some of it one one of the shows. Let me just say that I wouldn't know a thing about him if it weren't for my teenaged son who, naturally, finds him utterly fascinating. :D
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panxzz Donating Member (1 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-26-09 08:36 PM
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11. i love the gross factor
"Bear Grylls has taught me many things, for example, slug guts are very bad for you, and an intact snakeskin makes a great urine storage container (if you're ever lost in the desert). "


ha! i love any episode when he drinks his own urine. has anyone seen the http://manvswildepisodes.com/viewer.php?id=201">man vs wild episode where he drinks the moisture from elephant poop? GROSS!
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LuvNewcastle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-03-09 12:18 AM
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4. I was pretty disgusted when I saw him
cut up a dead zebra and eat it raw. He didn't even kill it, the thing was just lying there dead. I haven't watched him since.
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oedura Donating Member (347 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-03-09 08:59 AM
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9. It irritates the hell out of me, TBH...
Edited on Tue Nov-03-09 08:59 AM by oedura
There's another survival show, "Survivorman" with Les Stroud, in which the host occasionally kills an animal, but they supposedly drop him off alone in the middle of nowhere.

Fucking Bear Grylls has a camera crew following him around, and they all go back to a fucking base camp or hotel at the end of the day, so there's really no excuse for grabbing a frog off a bush and chewing it to death or pulling a lizard out of the sand and sawing its head off against a rock.

If the guy was legitimately in a survival situation, fine. Killing things when you've got a camera crew behind you who all probably packed sandwiches for the day is another thing.

But I suppose just pointing to an animal and saying "You could eat this in a survival situation." doesn't have nearly as much "entertainment" value as eating it alive.
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cowcommander Donating Member (679 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-28-09 12:32 PM
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12. Bear Grylls is a fraud
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UpSlpvb1is

Don't take what you see on the show too seriously.
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rcrush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-28-09 05:21 PM
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13. lol thats awesome
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