Humans have been doing it forever - for food.

Doing it for fun is a whole new ball game.

I don't hunt. I just wait for the meat to come to me.

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what a dumb fuck...

Gator is good eating.

Assholes, they should have stayed in the US and shot a cow or two. No one eats what they were hunting.



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I'm in agreement with the majority here. Who woulda want to kill an elephant? This is an interesting point, though:

I wouldn't have thought of that. I know a lot of things work like that, for example here fireworks have a tax that pays for fire education and fire protection, so surprisingly more fireworks sales results in less fire damage. The roughly $1,000 per year in tobacco taxes paid by each smoker adds up to billions that help states pay for health care programs. I wonder what programs are in place in Africa.

What's the point of hunting a fucking elephant? They hardly lurk around in the shadows like the Scarlet Pimpernel, and it's not like you're likely to throw it on the grill, nor can you do much with one after it stops breathing. Unless you're a fucking lion or ivory poacher.

Shooting an elephant then leaving it to rot seems pretty stupid and pointless.

Actually, although I loath what they did, the fact is that the majority of funding used to preserve wildlife refuges, and pay for anti-poaching efforts, comes from the selling of hunting licenses and expeditions. If that industry did not exist, there would be far fewer of those animals around today, if any.




"Conservation for animals requires land and support, and in most cases also requires money. Legal hunting of the rhino in Africa is one such case. For the population of rhino to thrive, land needs to be set aside, a wildlife refuge. With hunters willing to pay up to R1 million (over a million USD) to hunt a white rhino, the population of white rhinos would receive greater benefits than banning hunting of them all together.

When Kenya banned elephant hunting in 1970 the poaching of the elephants increased at a significant rate. Spectators do not travel very far to view a small number of animals, where hunters will travel very far to hunt one animal.

The hunting industry brings in over $6 billion annually, and with this comes money for conservation, and for the poor communities such as Makhasa where a wildlife reserve has been created.

The industry’s support of the hunt comes after international rhino conservationist Dr Ian Player also defended it this week. On Tuesday, Player said legal hunting had made a significant contribution to the recovery of the formerly critically endangered species.

“The hunters have played a big role in the recovery of the big white rhino,” said Player.

By having a legal hunt for the rhino, not only are funds created for conservation, the conservation officials can manage the rhino population. Conservation officials are the ones choosing which rhino will be harvested after research. By allowing the legal hunt of rhinos a lot more good than harm is the end result. From The Saturday Star."


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shut up, woman.

The people who ruin anything are the ones who blindly jump to irrational conclusions, or go on to post completely ignorant statements.

As you've proved now three times in this thread, this is the type of character you are. You can stay in your own country. :321GFY

Yes and just like chicken and beef there are gator farms to provide gator meat for people who like to eat it.

There aren't deer farms or wild boar farms.

Is it okay to eat them?

And the chickens and gators in those "farms" live horrible cruel lives. It's actually more humane to hunt and eat animals than it is purchase most store/restaurant meats.

looks like a massive salt water croc to me, protected in Australia and many parts of the world but also commercially farmed in poorer nations mainly for their skin and so ladies can have colorful handbags.

They did that in Aus they'd be in jail.

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Depends on its diet. I've had gator that was fed chicken and small game and I've had gator that fed on fish. The gator that fed on fish was disgusting(very fishy) while the fowl fed gator tasted like... chicken.

OP:
I really doubt those assholes at that leopard, elephant or other large game animals. I would definitely want to try some of that water buffalo. That thing looks tasty.

Sly: They have fenced in 'areas' that i suppose you could call a farm without the domestication of wild boar or deer. I love both of them. Especially the wild boar that eat the nuts in the mountains of spain. Now that is some damn good ham.

Ministry of Greed and the Department of Corruption.

I'd never go hunting but I'd also never turn away a venison tenderloin from a friend that does.

That's available but it's not very common. What portion of those two animals eaten is farmed like that? I'm guessing somewhere below 10%.

My friend's restaurant does. I don't think I go to any other restaurants that serve wild game like that. My friend's dad took a chopper ride over some wild boar farm so he could inspect it all before he decided to use them as his supplier. Wild boar and venison aren't very common on restaurant menus. It's not like they serve it at Outback Steakhouse.