Big Predator Hunting

Big game hunting has taken hold all over the planet, especially big predator hunting. With cases like Cecil the Lion seeming more and more common, it is time we make changes to our big predator hunting laws. It isn't a humane practice, and if you look at how much money is being made off of sentencing these animals to death it would amaze you. The days of allowing governments corporations and individuals to make money by allowing hunts of "their" animals are over, and we need to move past this primitive practice.

This video has just recently emerged of a Grizzly Bear being shot and killed by hunters.  After watching that video, and just listening to these "men" talk while they slowly kill a beautiful, majestic Grizzly Bear, all there is left to say is that was really is disgusting. And how about all the blood and internal organs pouring out of his underside as he runs across the snow, really pleasant right? This is what big game hunting really looks like, there isn't anything clean or humane about it. The Bear is going about his business hundreds of feet away from the hunters, and then in his natural habitat he is shot multiple times, and they missed all around him. Same thing as humans being in their kitchen and then shot several times slowly by an alien hundreds of feet away, while they just look in entertainment at the human's suffering. It sounds pretty wild I know, but it really is the only way for people to realize what we are doing to these creatures. All the while we have people making tens of thousands of dollars by allowing the killing of these animals. 

The "man" who killed Cecil the Lion, Walter Palmer reportedly paid $50,000 to be able to kill a Lion in Zimbabwe. They then lured Cecil off park grounds, shot him with an arrow, and then 40 hours later shot him with a rifle. He was then skinned and his head cut off, later on park investigators found his headless skeleton, and his tracking collar was no where to be found. Looking around the world, there are more and more cases of endangered animals, particularly endangered predators being hunted despite their low numbers and the impact on the ecosystem. Alaska is allowing the hunting and trapping of the rare Alexander Archipelago Wolf, despite their population being down 60% and as few as 50 wolves left. That is just unbelievable, exploiting our fellow beings despite their need for help.

In 50 years when our children and grandchildren see videos like that, what are they going to think? They are going to see a society that allows this violent practice to continue, all while making money off of exploiting these great creatures. From now on whenever you hear hunting laws coming up for voting, try and think about that video and the bear, and hopefully we can end this primitive practice.