Footage of three-foot worms and carnivorous starfish feasting on a seal carcass at the bottom of the Antarctic, from the Life series, was shown on screens during the show.

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What is more, it strikes me as perfectly possible that the overall welfare of a wild seal, suddenly killed on an ice floe, is better than the life endured by an intensively reared farm animal killed on a production line after being driven to an abattoir on a lorry.

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Coincidentally or not, Seal is doing the talk-show circuit lately and often talking about his personal life only, while Klum remains mum about the divorce.

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