Miss Clinique

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...liday-fun.html

Who would go on a holiday like this, and take children.

Its sickening.

Lorry1

That's just horrible!

iaink

The fact its giraffes and its families doing it is a bit different, but really is it that different to bear hunting, or deer hunting, or the turkey hunt, or seal season, or cows in an abatoir, or fishing in the creek? When you get right down to the nitty gritty? Come to think of it doesnt canada sell licenses to hunt polar bears?

Cant say its something I would advocate, but as I eat meat that probably makes me a hypocrite on some level.

Tangram

Deer, turkey and fishing - yes it is different. Generally you eat your kill ( even moose ). Giraffe burgers packed in ice for the plane journey home; not so much.

MikeUK

I agree its hunting, in no way different from shooting a bear, or deer, or moose here

Its legal, we've done the gun’s and all hunters are blood thirsty nut job threads before

MikeUK

Shoudln't that read "Generally you can eat your kill" ?

Who's to say that the giraffe won't get eaten, I bet the local's won't leave that much meat to rot, unlike what can and does happen here for sport

iaink

You are warned specifically not to eat too much of the fish you pull out of the water around here due to the heavy metal content or whatever, fishing here is most definitely for "sport".

gillyd65

Agree it is sickening but no more than any other type of hunting as a leisure pursuit imo

Atlantic Xpat

'Ere we go. Must go and get the moose burgers out of the freezer now. Goes down lovely with some seal flipper pie eaten while reclining on a bearskin rug.

iaink

Sorry, never answered the question.

Probably the same sort of people who take a week off work and their teenage kids out of school for a week every year to go sit in the woods in the rain, covered in urine that they paid good money for in hope of bagging a bear or a 14pt stag.

But the giraffes probably have to wait until after they won the 6-49.


I think that as people become more and more urban based we lose sight of the reality of how the food chain works, and the fact that some people enjoy hunting.

Tangram

Well wherever the 'sport' happens I don't agree with it. Shooting and eating, sure, but just to say you have shot something and how bloody great am I to shooting a large animal stood still, sorry that's a no.

gillyd65

Fair enough if you eat the thing, but as a trophy - no. Try deep fried gator balls if you're ever in the Southern States of the US, I'm told they are 'awesome'.

dollface

That should have come with a warning before clicking how awful, they need to be treated with the same respect as they have shown the poor animals, makes me want to cry.

MikeUK

Don't get me wrong, I see hunting as a primitve primate blood lust

but what I think is happening here is the "pretty Giraffe" will cloud the issue, when many on here are quite happy to see the local wildlife blown away as thats OK and normal but "exotcis" are not, when they are only exotic because they're not "local" to us

iaink

Thats my point too FWIW, although I suspect that hunters would defend their actions as something more than a primitive bloodlust.