1000 Flowers for the Planet - #92 Ban Canned Hunting
Written by Margaret A Rowe
I’m actually
not against hunting at all – provided it’s done for one reason only – to eat.
If a person feels the need to enter the wilderness and track down an animal in
a legal place using legal methods, for the purpose of taking that animal for
food, then I have no issue with it. It is a practice that reflects man’s basic
instincts of survival, and I think that should be acknowledged. There are still
many tribes-people who hunt for their food, and in developed countries the
‘sport’ of hunting develops many useful skills.
However,
canned hunting is a totally different thing, involving physical constraints of
the animal (fencing) and/or the hunting of animals that have been raised tame.
Tracking down an animal that has no chance of escape is a cowardly act. These
hunters pay big money to hunt in this type of environment for the sake of
taking home a trophy – not to eat the animal, but to stuff it and hang it on
the wall. How can there possibly be any sense of achievement in killing a
creature in this way? There is no sense of honour in this outrageous practice.
It disgusts me, and should disgust most people on this planet.
For fantastic information presented with
well-researched facts, by people with personal and hands-on involvement please
take the time to read www.cannedlion.org
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