Anyone see this, fat Americans shooting game in Africa, the game was breed for hunting? $40k for a Lion and £50k for a Rhino, mad me feel sick!!! Justifying the hunting this one cock said 'its man versus wild animal', hunt it without the gun or crossbow then!!!
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glad he couldn't go through with it! those poor animals, and posing with them afterwards.
I think if i was given the opportunity to shoot an animal I think I could do. Not want to do it, but could.
If they didnt exist these "hunting parks" it would be interesting to see the numbers of animals that existed in South Africa as it seems in other countries, such as Zimbabwe - animals have completely died out - according to the people on it.
Another point is that this is a culture difference, hunting is part of the culture and a way of making money for themselves. All the meat is given to local villages as well which I thought was quite commendable.
The yanks enjoyed it a bit too much for my liking, when they came back cheering etc.
Who is an "eat it but won't kill it" type person?
Again, I think it is hypocritical to say yeah, "but cows are made for meat" but then disagree with animals that are bred for hunting. Why should we value a lion's life over a chicken's life etc?
If in England for example, you could go into a field with cows, lambs, chickens and kill them, would this be right? Does it make any difference whether they are shot with a crossbow and/or a gun and die within 5 seconds or got carted off to an abbatoir, electrode in the mouth, throat slit, neck broken etc?
Devil's Advocate here.
its deemed as fun, and I can't just get myself past that fact. Those animals were beautiful and much better feeding in the bush rather than stuck on someones wall.
I'm an eat it but won't kill it person, quite proud to say that. I just don't think i could physically shoot something and enjoy it.
I do respect that shouty guy though for saying its his culture, and its ok for him to do it, he was a bit of a loon, but did understand what he meant.
we also thought it was hilarious that when looking for the Zebra that he thought he "got a good shot" at that the people were looking at the floor. it did look funny. obviously they were looking for blood, but maybe they bred minature zebra :-)
Maybe the farmers will shut up about not getting enough money if they allowed people to come in and shoot a cow for £100.
Sorry.
Riding The Red Rooster or The Old Patagoian Express are two good ones.
Suzi is proud that she couldn't kill anything but if Suzi was starving to death on desert island and a bunny rabbit was there for the taking it would seem less rational to view the human race as not part of the food chain and accept death by starvation. Rest of my family are veggies and I argue the case that only those who would choose death by starvation (not the same as not having the stomach to kill for food) have the right to criticize the act of killing an animal without intent to cause suffering.
What's wrong is simply that the human race has abused its position at the top of the food chain and that is where the changes in attitude should be.
I would criticise the American hunters on the grounds that the level of sportsmanship is so low that it hardly counts as sport, but that's subjective.
not all that different really, except the animals in Africa are a bit bigger...
personally, i believe that we make far to much of a personal attachment to certain animals and disregard the ones we are used to eating.
Cows can be very pleasant animals - as can chickens!
that said, i wouldn't kill anything if i didnt eat it.
this society eats far too much meat these days anyway!
Although in "cavemen" times and to a certain extent, many nomadic cultures and tribes nowadays rely on the killing of animals. The more "western" cultures may not need to kill animals but maybe it is a natural instinct to kill? It has just evolved for some people from a need to a want and in others disappeared altogether.
The profits from both approaches is then reinvested back into the projects and pays for things such as anti poaching patrols, miles and miles of electrified fencing, ensuring that the environments are free of non-indigenous flora and fauna and breeding programmes for other endangered species.
I know it must seem harsh to breed these animals for this purpose, but what you have to remember is that this approach is the only approach that ensures that local people see that nature needs to be preserved and that they can make money from it as opposed to seeing it as more profitable to hunt Black Rhino, for example, to extinction just because the Chinese want to turn it into a cup of tea cos they think it will cure their in growing toenail. It also means that more and more land is being returned back to its original state and therefore not only supporting the large game, but also the less hi-profile, but no less important indigenous birds, insects and smaller mammals that were also struggling to survive.
The killing is the outcome of hunting it is not the source of the pleasure, if there is pleasure in killing then there is a sanity issue. Would you accuse a person who ate an oyster of enjoying killing it? Its purely cultural as to what is seen by society as acceptable to be killed for food and how it is killed. Like SE10 says just depends how big the creature is and I would add whether it is furry and cuddly like a monkey or a baby seal.
On the drive round in the jeep spotting the animals; lion, giraffe, rhino etc I did keep asking the ranger whether they were good to eat and for any serving suggestions.
One funny response was the impala were considered the McDonalds of the plains as they are eaten by most of the carnivorous animals as they have the McDonalds sign - big M - on their arses.
Hope they survive :-(
I dont really see any difference between what Fat Americans are doing now to what Rich Englishman have been doing for the last 200 years.