And so does his brother as well to have the confidence to post the video on social media in the expectation all it would do was raise a laugh.
I've no doubt some people are so pathetic they keep animals just to be mean to them.
Hope he gets the boot himself.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. Somehow I can't quite believe Zouma when he says this was an 'isolated' incident.
Well actually I saw it via twitter originally. Anyway this story I'm glad to see has gone viral today in msm. Even The Guardian decided to go with it a couple of hours ago - https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/feb/08/west-ham-kurt-zouma-kicking-cat-rspca-criticises ,if it's somehow better to read about it there.
There used to be lot of videos on LiveLeak of youths luring stray kittens with treats or any cat .all American videos . Shockin
Then kicking them like a football
Around 56 billion land animals are slaughtered each year. To feed those 56 billion land animals alone, requires more food than would be required to feed 8 billion humans is the point @Thelonious Monk was trying to make. So rather than feeding plants to an exploited animal who will then be killed, as well as all the crop deaths occurring to feed that animal, it's far more efficient to just eat the plants directly. Yes there will be unavoidable deaths and this is unfortunate, but the amount of unavoidable deaths will pale in comparison to feeding those 56 billion land animals and then intentionally killing those 56 billion land animals on top. This isn't even touching on the trillions of fish killed each year.
The relevance to the thread I believe is that people will get upset hearing of an animal that in our culture we see as a pet, being abused, while paying for the exploitation and abuse of other animals. Neither are necessary, but yet one is acceptable and normal just because our society and culture dictates it to be, yet from the victims perspective, they both value their life as much as we value ours.
This is better known as cognitive dissonance, which is explained pretty well here:
https://youtu.be/tnykmsDetNo
Wow. What an absolute shower of total trash.
BTW I would hate to think what Mr Zouma would do to a dog.
Just another incident of a not very bright, in fact sometimes odious individuals, who happen to be pretty good at a sport and now make an absolute fortune thanks to eejits paying over the odds for jerseys, pay per view TV, etc.
When I see videos like this I shudder to think what goes on away from the camera. The scumbag should be booted out of West Ham and definitely never allowed to keep animals again.
Can you fooking stop with your incessant drive to fook over Irish agriculture.
Saw the clip and it wasnt just a kick without thinking, he drop kicked the poor thing. Fans are going to make his name mud and rightly so. Nothing can excuse such horrible behaviour
I don't watch these type of vids but from the description his brother filmed it while laughing, more than likely this is not a first and quite possibly they've grown up doing these type of things and he's now including his young son in the 'game'
that's a problem, a big one
Confirmed you're an idiot, thanks. Corn, soybean etc. are the staples of meat eaters diet, and the animals they are eating too.
Calls me stupid, doesn't even understand the very basic premise of my previous post. Gotta love boards.
WFT does the amount of land used for cattle have to do with the amount of SENTIENT ANIMALS KILLED by the land use? There is no correlation.
When Steven Davis began setting up a course on animal ethics for the animal science department at Oregon State University four years ago, he reached a rather surprising conclusion. Millions of animals are killed every year, Davis says, to prepare land for growing crops, "like corn, soybean, wheat and barley, the staples of a vegan diet."
Not really, but if things like the subject of this thread make you uncomfortable maybe look at where your food comes from, because the animals involved likely had a far worse time than the cat in this predicament. I know you don't care, but it's hard not to call out the hypocrisy.
My bacon and eggs. And milk were lovely thank you. And my burger tomorrow will be nice too. And, at expected, we see the usual brigade attempting to turn the conversation to their sanctimonious selves. Look at me... I'm better than you. Only I can dislike animal cruelty
It's hard to believe you can be this stupid but then again I've seen some of your other posts.. but what do you think the animals you eat are fed and how much land does it take up that would otherwise be occupied by insects and other creatures?
You don't really think it takes less land to produce meat calories than plant calories do you?!
Not the upset part the animal cruelty part. Sorry I don't have a source however unless one lives in a vegetarian tribe they are contributing to animal cruelty.
I didn’t know everyone was upset by the video. Source?
He might not be so quick to kick with a couple of torn ligaments….not that I’d advocate that of course, just saying…
Wouldn't it be a pity if someone went in two footed on him in his next game.
Put a tiger or lion into his room and we see if he will kick it.
Vegan? How many worms and other earth-dwelling animals are killed by ploughing fields to grow crops etc? Lets not be hypocrites here.
Average yields are about 1.4 tonnes of wheat/hectare; 13% of the wheat is useable protein. Therefore, at least 55 sentient animals die to produce 100kg of useable plant protein: 25 times more than for the same amount of rangelands beef.
I didnt realise it was illegal to eat bacon and eggs, unlike abusing pets
That'd be everyone, me and you included.
I love cats but I mean if you compare the hell pigs go through in their millions every day in Ireland to this cat getting kicked it really makes you wonder why some animals are cared about and others are treated like dirt.
Bloody idiot allowing this to get on social media though.
Kicking and punching a cat, with a child taking part / present……. and that really fücking creepy sick psycho laugh while he’s doing it…ughhhh
be nice if there was an animal lover or two playing for teams lining up in the premier league against West Ham over the coming weeks, see if they could dish out a little cruelty of their own…
Zouma says :
"They are loved and cherished by our entire family, and this behaviour was an isolated incident that will not happen again."
loved and cherished by the entire family, yes, looked like it alright… West Ham won’t do anything… not exactly a club that set a high barometer as regards the behaviours of their players and fans.. most likely a fine and a photo op with an animal charity which if they were right of mind would turn down along with a statement of condemnation….
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I dread to think what the reaction will be if he ever kicks a human.
Given his general footballing ability, I’m actually impressed he was even able to kick the cat so accurately.
What a fucкing scumbag. That poor little cat. 😟
Calm down. I never said you were defending Zouma. I just said you were implying that people were hypocrites for commenting about this and eating meat and dairy.
I quoted your post. I then paraphrased what you said in my post. You got snippy so I quoted the salient part of your post verbatim. I don't believe I misrepresented you.
And apologies for calling you Mate. I didn't realise that you would take it literally.
