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.
Wouldn't it be a pity if someone went in two footed on him in his next game.
He might not be so quick to kick with a couple of torn ligaments….not that I’d advocate that of course, just saying…
I didn’t know everyone was upset by the video. Source?
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.
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?!
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
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.
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."
Confirmed you're an idiot, thanks. Corn, soybean etc. are the staples of meat eaters diet, and the animals they are eating too.
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
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
Can you fooking stop with your incessant drive to fook over Irish agriculture.
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.
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.
Wow. What an absolute shower of total trash.
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
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
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.
His career is in free fall, you’d wonder if there are more reasons then footballing ones as to why an established and international footballer playing for Chelsea gets shifted and is out on loan so much when he wasn’t exactly a youngster…
11 caps in 5/6 years for France
99 appearances for Chelsea in 6/7 years.. now playing for the hammers.
seems to be managers maybe don’t have great faith in him… most or some of that could be off the field carry on… it’s unlikely to be made public… but it’s not something he’ll live down… and clubs will be very hesitant now to be associated with ‘Kurt the cat kicker’
good enough for him too, play stupid games, win stupid prizes… I doubt he’ll escape a conviction as a bonus… police are investigating.
Ugh, holier than thou vegan thread derailment.
Pretty shameful from West Ham to name him their side tonight, that's next level brushing under the carpet
Some guy went on about all the insects vegans kill. I couldn't help myself.
That's just ridiculous, you don't have to be a vegan to believe domesticated animals should be treated better in general. There are something like 1.5 million pigs in Ireland that never see the light of day, kept in horrific packed conditions. Almost all pigs are reared permanently indoors on bare slatted flooring over toxic slurry tanks.
We can do much better, but I would imagine the vast majority of people would choose cheap meat that they can afford to eat every day rather than more expensive meat that comes from well treated animals. That's why these kind of outrage stories annoy me.
Teaching his children animal cruelty, not fit to be a parent.
Yeah but as a meat eater I don’t give a crap about animals being killed for food.
Wish my career was in “free fall”. He just started a Premier League game.
Yeah lets all thank the good f**k it wasn't his television either
You so bad ass
Don't respond to him. He's just looking for a reaction.
