Lions bred to be shot in South Africa's canned hunting industry

[wtmusic]

There are now more captive lions in South Africa than wild ones, and many of these animals are reared specifically to be shot and owned by wealthy tourists from Europe and North America. Patrick Barkham visits a lion-breeding farm in North Eastern Free State, South Africa, to investigate the relationship between the rearing of lions in captivity and the so-called 'canned hunting' industry

• Warning: Contains graphic images (video at link)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2013/jun/03/lions-canned-hunting-south-africa-video

[Skittles]

1. the are just another subset of gun humpers

cowards, all of them

[lonestarnot]

2. Shoot'eminthefacers love that shit.

[FirstLight]

3. guh!

I can;t look, but isn't there some way to stop this practice? wtf?

[MotherPetrie]

4. Evil dickless fuckers

[pscot]

5. Ask for the Dick Cheney Fantasy Safari

You kill 2 of everything.

[msongs]

6. cows bred to be hacked to death in the USA. is there any difference really? nt

[wtmusic]

7. Maybe not.

IMO trophy hunting occupies a special niche in the gun nut masturbatory fantasy.

Put any of these clowns out on the African plain with a bow and arrow and I might revise that opinion.

[Nihil]

8. I'd guess that anyone who pays money to hack a rare-breed cow to death in the USA ...

... risks being arrested rather than merely being photographed with their "trophy" to show
off to other limpdicks when they get home ...

I have no problem with the criticism of animal farming (especially in the feedlot world of
American livestock) but to attempt to draw a parallel between the two distinctly unrelated
practices (albeit both abhorrent for different reasons) is ... interesting?