Trophy hunters

[The Grand Wazoo]

The reason why it is allowed to continue is, like most things, because of the money that surrounds it.
Here is a rather sickening price list (in US dollars) from one firm of hunting outfitters - a large proportion of the cash goes in fees to the Government.

BIG FIVE & DANGEROUS GAME TROPHY FEES

• BUFFALO $ 13,500
• CROCODILE $ 7,450
• ELEPHANT $ 35,000
• LION $ 22,000
• LIONESS $ 9,000
• LEOPARD $ 15,000
• HIPPOPOTAMUS $ 9,400

[Marco]

It makes me feel physically ill just reading through that list, let alone imagining the atrocity of the 'sport' attached to paying for it....

Marco.

[Wakefield Turntables]

One stupid cow who shoots rare species - COST --> PRICELESS

[Macca]

It's not like it is even a challenge. One of my brother went on safari in Kenya, he said the place is teeming with wildlife - a pride of lions walked right past his landrover. Any idiot with 5 minutes instruction could shoot a whole bunch of animals without even getting out of the jeep. Nobody normal is impressed by this stuff. But as Chris says, there is money in it so it will continue I suppose.

[Effem]

I find trophy hunting utterly and completely repellent in every way. However, licensed game hunting goes on all the time in SA - interesting that this woman seems to have hit a particular nerve - if the report is accurate, she was hunting in a licensed 'conservancy hunting park', so instead of trying to get this excuse for a human-being banned from South Africa, which will of course not happen, surely people should put their efforts into protesting about why these kind of hunting safaris are sanctioned by the government in the first place?

Money, the government makes a fair wedge from it.


Fence off Dartmoor, let loose the scum that repeatedly kill and rape, the paedophiles, the abusers, then have some "trophy hunters" earn their keep there. Brady wouldn't be going on hunger strike and whining about dying that's for sure when being chased.

It's what crosses my mind when I see photos of these low-lifes and degenerates, a better solution then cooping them up in jails.

[Joe]

Is everyone on here a vegetarian then? Or is it the particular variety of animal being killed that's crucial?

[Effem]

Is everyone on here a vegetarian then? Or is it the particular variety of animal being killed that's crucial?

Someone earlier on in this thread said that there was a clear difference between killing an animal for food and killing an animal purely for the thrill it gives them. I suppose when you render it down to it's basic level there is a dead animal by human hands in both scenarios and in truth both are morally suspect - as vegetarians and vegans believe. Do we then take that argument one step further and say that a lion killing a zebra for food slowly and painfully by hunting and capture with tooth and claw is also morally corrupt?

Quite often I will look at meat on my own dinner plate and think that I am eating the flesh of a once living and breathing creature who didn't "deserve" to die just so I can eat it. But the reality is that even if I didn't consume that flesh because of my own conscience it would have been killed ANYWAY to feed many others. There is always hope that it died quicker and painlessly than being hunted down with tooth and claw in the wild, although there is well recorded evidence of unbelievable cruelty and suffering that exists is some abattoires,

[Marco]

Fence off Dartmoor, let loose the scum that repeatedly kill and rape, the paedophiles, the abusers, then have some "trophy hunters" earn their keep there. Brady wouldn't be going on hunger strike and whining about dying that's for sure when being chased.

I'm liking that!



Marco.

[anthonyTD]

There is something very disturbing about people who feel the need to kill potentially lethal animals [ in a fair fight anyway] for so called sport, with a gun from a safe distance, they are in my opinion, cowards, and very shallow and insecure human beings, not fit to be classed as human really.
Anyone who kills animals to eat' i have no problem with...
It really saddens and sickens me to know these practices still go on in a modern society.
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