Cecil the Lion
Walter Palmer killed Cecil the Lion on his latest hunting trip to Zimbabwe. Walter is a Minnesota dentist who allegedly paid over $50,000 for the trip, license, and guide services.
It is not completely clear if the proper licenses were obtained and it is alleged that the guide baited the lion to get him to leave a protected park area where hunting is not allowed to stray on to land where he could be hunted. The baiting described is forbidden. Not very sporting to leave a tempting meal across the border of the park and then hunting an animal looking for a meal.
There is hunting, but this kind of big game hunting is stretching any reasonable definition of hunting I would support.
I've eaten deer while living in West Virginia, the next door neighbor was sharing meat from his freezer. I gladly accepted the food and ate it immediately after it defrosted. I've eaten pheasants, ducks, and geese that were killed by shotguns. I'm not a vegetarian and have my doubts about modern farming and remember getting uncomfortable watching butchers cut up hogs and cattle when I was younger and went to the butcher shop in England and the animals were hung on hooks behind the counter.
Hunting for food is reasonable, hunting and fishing for trophies isn't worth it even if it contributes to a sporting economy.
It is not completely clear if the proper licenses were obtained and it is alleged that the guide baited the lion to get him to leave a protected park area where hunting is not allowed to stray on to land where he could be hunted. The baiting described is forbidden. Not very sporting to leave a tempting meal across the border of the park and then hunting an animal looking for a meal.
There is hunting, but this kind of big game hunting is stretching any reasonable definition of hunting I would support.
I've eaten deer while living in West Virginia, the next door neighbor was sharing meat from his freezer. I gladly accepted the food and ate it immediately after it defrosted. I've eaten pheasants, ducks, and geese that were killed by shotguns. I'm not a vegetarian and have my doubts about modern farming and remember getting uncomfortable watching butchers cut up hogs and cattle when I was younger and went to the butcher shop in England and the animals were hung on hooks behind the counter.
Hunting for food is reasonable, hunting and fishing for trophies isn't worth it even if it contributes to a sporting economy.
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