I don't believe killing anything is a "sport". Why is taking a life, no matter what species, considered entertainment? You have a gun or a bow. What does the animal have? Such a beautiful creature... Such a disgusting waste of a life.
I agree with you animals are fantastic what is the point in killing them? I don't understand that why kill animals I was going to be a vegetarian but I changed my mind because I understood that those animals were already dead and I could change that but hunters have the choice between life or death
I'm just curious, but aren't their nutrients that only meat has? Humans are omnivores, that means we eat everything. Mind explaining to me how that works?
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I'm not trying to start something, I'm just curious.
There's a certain variety of Vitamin D, but that can be found in plants. It's difficult, but supplements are available and they're pretty cheap. Then there's vitamin B12, which is essential for nerve function, but that's made by bacteria anyway. We cook our meat and wash our vegetables. Only reason it's hard to get from plants. There's supplements for this also. Vegetarians don't have too much of a problem with this, but a vegan would want to supplement both of these. Actually, past a certain age, you're going to want to supplement these, anyway. You might not be getting enough, even if you eat a lot of meat.
If you're a vegan and you need supplements because of vitamins you're not getting because you don't eat meat, that should tell you something. And I'm sorry, but our ability to hunt and eat cooked meat is one of the cornerstones of our advancement as a species. "You have a gun or a bow, what does it have?" uh, how about an extra 400 lbs. of muscle, or perhaps huge super-sharp claws? What about their speed and giant mouth filled with sharp-ass teeth. While I agree that sport hunting isn't attractive, let's not pretend it doesn't support conservation efforts. She probably paid out the ass, directly to the preserve, to hunt one lion, out of a population of hundreds. Sport hunting is one of the main reasons those conservation efforts are sustainable, and thus sport hunting is the only reason the animals are alive.
Killing a male lion in its prime can destroy a pack. Packs usually consist of 2 males, a few females and hopefully cubs which need protecting. If someone kills a male when there are cubs in the pack, a new male will fight for the open position and then kill the cubs so the females will go into heat again, securing his bloodline. If you really wanted to kill a lion it's honestly better to kill an older male lion since they've likely been kicked out of their pack or have been left behind. Their numbers are dwindling now as it is. That lion she shot looks young. Not only did she kill a beautiful almost endangered animal, she just killed his cubs and wounded the mother's trying to protect them.
I agree that killing that lion was fucked up but I don't see how the post makes the point. I mean all it say is that it is wrong, and then it quotes those researchers who say that it is cowardly to kill a lion. But it never says why they think that...
Y'all's crazy! Meat is the essence of life, yes raising and slaughtering thousands of head of cattle purely for mcdonalds isn't right in any way. But, that's how the circle of life works, we live, someone who wants to kill us comes by, we die, and we go back to the earth for nutrients. Then something else eats those nutrients and so on and so forth.
Oh please, hunting isn't wrong. It is a contest between man and nature. Your skill and your tools, vs nature's instinct and senses. Millennia of evolutionary success put to the challenge. Good hunters eat what they kill and do everything possible to minimize the animals pain. If the first shot doesn't take it down, we are willing to spend hours, even days to end its suffering. Besides, that's Africa. She paid a lot of money (helped local economy) for that hunt, her dream hunt, and she gave the meat to local tribes. Just cause you don't like it doesn't mean it's wrong. Hunters sure as hell do more for nature than most animal rights groups. We defiantly have more incentive to do so.
Well, if you know the whole story, then you know that trophy hunting in Africa aids in conservation, creates jobs, and feeds the locals. You do know that, right?
And it damages the population. Animals are worth far more alive in tourism value. If the lions are all gone, it will make things much worse for the people who live there. We lose on average 30,000 lions per decade. There's 20,000 left. If you lose the lions, the entire ecosystem collapses. Much more is at stake than just a few jobs related to trophy hunting, which by the way, is still a disgusting "sport."
Too many lions means not enough food to sustain the population, so hunting some of them is a necessity. Besides, many laws are in place to prevent over hunting. Africa's tourist industries main concern is poachers, they don't follow rules, and they don't give anything to anyone unless they are paid, so how about we hate them instead?
EDIT: Also, adult males often kill cubs (plural) in order to mate with the now childless mother, so there is another point for hunting helps the population.
There is no where near "too many lions". Hunting them is not a necessity, it is hurting them. Lions have NO NATURAL PREDATORS. They're not meant to be hunted. Besides. What she did is fucking cowardly and disgusting. Here's the rest.
http://where.com/gag/av0Q5Bb
@songofthewhitestag First off, stalking means getting dirty and sneaking up on the animal, secondly, how sure are you that lion is the one she killed? Because if that's how she really did it, I'll have to say that that's not hunting, that's slaughter. Unless the lion was sick or old, which I believe we can agree on being an entirely different subject.
If that's how she did it, I'll have to apologize for wasting your time.
All hunting is slaughter. All hunting is taking the life away from a being that wanted to live. Animals often fight harder for their lives than even humans do. Hunting for fun or a trophy is just sick.
I know I'm late but I agree with @songofthewhitestag. It's one thing to hunt for food that we need (not just giving what we kill for no reason to people to justify the act), or to kill in self defense, but to kill an animal just because it's your hobby is sick. Also, your point about hunting is good because sometimes male lions kill the Cubs is so wrong and happens to be the problem that lexipop21 pointed out above. Lions only do this when the alpha makes die. If you hunt the alphas, then YOU are killing the cubs
I sat and read this whole thing and I don't want to enter the conversation but man I laughed my ass off at that link. I'm assuming you meant it to go to 9-g-a-g when funsubstance automatically replaces that word with "where", making your link useless. where.com
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I'm not trying to start something, I'm just curious.
EDIT: Also, adult males often kill cubs (plural) in order to mate with the now childless mother, so there is another point for hunting helps the population.
http://where.com/gag/av0Q5Bb
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/why-killing-a-lion-is-the-most-cowardly-thing-you-can-do
If that's how she did it, I'll have to apologize for wasting your time.