Safari Kills

What you don't see is that those animals are then divided up amongst the local villages for food and other things. No different then how we kill cows, chickens, fish, turkeys etc and eat them and use them for other items. Their country makes money on the hunts as well. this comes up over and over again and nobody has been able to explain to me the difference between raising and killing a cow vs killing a giraffe other than the giraffe is cuter than the cow.

I am horrified by this behavior. I remember calling out a fellow pea whose husband is a big game hunter and being chided because she was so well liked. I think this is disgusting regardless of your status.

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myshelly so as long as a business slaughters animals for profit, its okay? If the girl was being paid to kill the animals would that make it easier for you to understand?

The area that she hunts in has a need to get rid of animals, very much like deer hunting in the US. Deer are vast in numbers and very destructive which is why there is a regulated hunting season to thin the herds and keep them manageable. Same for the countries abroad. They also have issues with their local wildlife becoming destructive and creating problems. So they have made a business out of luring hunters to come to their country, hunt animals they wouldn't get in their home country. Now with regulations regarding food being shipped between countries, of course the hunter cannot take the food back to their home, so it is given to the local villages who are extremely grateful.

Here in the united states we have lots of meat eaters who think nothing of going to the store to purchase meat they themselves have not killed. The animals are raised (most of the time in poor conditions) and then slaughtered by employees of a business. The food gets processed and sent to the stores.

This girl and her family are hunters. They had an opportunity to go to another country and hunt animals, which feed the local communities who also have people who eat meat, but can't/won't/don't hunt themselves for various reasons. The hunters put money into the local economy. The country that sells the hunting licenses is a business just like the butcher/meat plants are businesses, they just allow people to come and hunt instead of caging animals and slaughtering them by the thousands.

A child hunting is not a sign of a serial killer. They are learning valuable skills. They aren't randomly going out and killing. They aren't torturing animals, (which can't be said for the way we kill our food here in the United States). It just so happens their hobby helps a village.

I am a vegetarian and I do not hunt myself, but I don't understand the argument between why one animal is okay to kill and use for food, but another one isn't.

Hunted animals: Get to live their life in the wild as nature intended and are thinned out via regulated hunting measures. (here in the US....I do not know about other countries but every time this comes up the country states they needed these particular animals taken out of the herd)

Chickens, Cows, Pigs etc: Raised in small areas, fed hormones and other unnecessary things, treated poorly, and slaughtered in mass numbers.

There will always be an idiot in any group you look at. The dentist who shot the animal a while back is one...hes an ass. He isn't the model to be looking at. This girl on the other hand did nothing wrong. She went by all local laws, only shot what she was allowed to etc.

and you have asked each and every person who takes trips like this what their intentions are personally Im guessing?? I realize nothing I say will get you to even look at what I and others have pointed out so oh well. I do find it interesting that you can ignore the central argument when asked what is the difference between slaughtering animals and hunting animals. Its a valid question to ask in this discussion. But you don't want to learn anything, you just want to be right and to hate on people who do things you don't approve of. Carry on.

and you have asked each and every person who takes trips like this what their intentions are personally Im guessing?? I realize nothing I say will get you to even look at what I and others have pointed out so oh well. I do find it interesting that you can ignore the central argument when asked what is the difference between slaughtering animals and hunting animals. Its a valid question to ask in this discussion. But you don't want to learn anything, you just want to be right and to hate on people who do things you don't approve of. Carry on.

I actually don't think slaughterhouses are ok either.

myshelly so as long as a business slaughters animals for profit, its okay? If the girl was being paid to kill the animals would that make it easier for you to understand?

The area that she hunts in has a need to get rid of animals, very much like deer hunting in the US. Deer are vast in numbers and very destructive which is why there is a regulated hunting season to thin the herds and keep them manageable. Same for the countries abroad. They also have issues with their local wildlife becoming destructive and creating problems. So they have made a business out of luring hunters to come to their country, hunt animals they wouldn't get in their home country. Now with regulations regarding food being shipped between countries, of course the hunter cannot take the food back to their home, so it is given to the local villages who are extremely grateful.

Here in the united states we have lots of meat eaters who think nothing of going to the store to purchase meat they themselves have not killed. The animals are raised (most of the time in poor conditions) and then slaughtered by employees of a business. The food gets processed and sent to the stores.

This girl and her family are hunters. They had an opportunity to go to another country and hunt animals, which feed the local communities who also have people who eat meat, but can't/won't/don't hunt themselves for various reasons. The hunters put money into the local economy. The country that sells the hunting licenses is a business just like the butcher/meat plants are businesses, they just allow people to come and hunt instead of caging animals and slaughtering them by the thousands.

A child hunting is not a sign of a serial killer. They are learning valuable skills. They aren't randomly going out and killing. They aren't torturing animals, (which can't be said for the way we kill our food here in the United States). It just so happens their hobby helps a village.

I am a vegetarian and I do not hunt myself, but I don't understand the argument between why one animal is okay to kill and use for food, but another one isn't.

Hunted animals: Get to live their life in the wild as nature intended and are thinned out via regulated hunting measures. (here in the US....I do not know about other countries but every time this comes up the country states they needed these particular animals taken out of the herd)

Chickens, Cows, Pigs etc: Raised in small areas, fed hormones and other unnecessary things, treated poorly, and slaughtered in mass numbers.

There will always be an idiot in any group you look at. The dentist who shot the animal a while back is one...hes an ass. He isn't the model to be looking at. This girl on the other hand did nothing wrong. She went by all local laws, only shot what she was allowed to etc.