I ran across an interesting story about a polar bear named Knut over the last couple of days. One animal rights activist’s suggestion of how the bear should be taken care of shocked me.

Over at Reuters, they have more information regarding Knut, a baby polar bear whose mother abandoned him at the Berlin Zoo. I don’t mean to make a general remark about all animal rights activists, but one Frank Albrecht’s comments that the bear should be killed rather than raised by humans was quite shocking.

It just seems to me that if your are in the business of looking out for animals, that you would want to save them, not kill them. I understand that a polar bear being raised in captivity is much different than it would be if it were to be raised in the wild, but why not let the little guy live? I don’t think it’s going to hurt anyone. At least he has a chance in captivity.

So, I say, Save Baby Knut!