I See Things Like This And I Wonder Why
I just finished watching this CNN video which talks of lion farms. These farms have raised lions and fed them in what looks to be open space but is really a farm.
People pay thousands of dollars to go to South Africa to bag a lion or two. I see that and my mind says, “Why?”
If they have that kind of money and food is available in the store they don’t need to shoot them to live, and I doubt the meat is eaten anyway. They just want to spend more money to mount the heads and show them off back home.
The lions are well-fed so they are not going after the hunters to eat them and yet the hunter just stands there with his high-powered rifle and shoots this animal that isn’t really wild. Just for the thrill of it.
I will never understand the “sport” of killing an animal that can’t shoot back.
The owner of the farm claims it’s to thin out the population, but if that’s the case, why is he breeding them in the first place?
If a wild animal came up to me or one of my loved ones intending to attack and maim or kill I would have no compunction in shooting it if I had a gun on me, but otherwise he has a right to live too.
We’ve encroached on their home grounds by building more and more. When my daughter’s house was still new I counted five deer leaving the woods behind her house and clopping across the street and up into the woods on the other side.
Now there are no woods behind her house and a new house is going up in an empty lot, forcing baby rabbits out of their homes to scavenge for food before they are old enough to know how.
South Africa is passing a law that would forbid farmed animals from being hunted for two years after they are grown. Big deal.
Written by ~J~
Cal Says:
June 10th, 2007 at 5:40 amVisit Cal
Wonderful post.