You aren't actually comparing a top predator eating its natural prey to pornography or crime, are you? Because lions are supposed to eat giraffes. People aren't supposed to rape or murder. A lion eating a giraffe is being nice, nice to the other lions. In the wild, if the giraffe doesn't die, the lion does. Would you rather illustrate this fact by showing children a slowly starving lion?

Children should know where meat comes from. And they should understand that life on the African savanna is most certainly not like the Lion King, nor is life in the woods like Bambi, nor life in the sea like Finding Nemo. My children have watched me butcher fish, deer, pheasants, ducks and geese. When they get older I hope to take them with me and increase their knowledge. Indeed, I hope someday to be there when they take their first bird, if it is something they want to do. There is nothing about it that should be shameful.