Lions are "vulnerable" but hardly about to go extinct.
The whole Cecil thing is entirely manufactured.
Posted on 07/29/2015 6:06:15 PM PDT by ScottWalkerForPresident2016
As part of the celebrations for his 91st birthday next Saturday, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe will be served a feast featuring five impala, two buffalo, two elephants, two sables, and one lion. According to a report in Zimbabwe's The Chronicle, the menagerie was donated by Tendai Musasa, owner of the prominent Woodlands Farm near the Elephant Hills Resort at Victoria Falls, where the 20,000-person shindig will take place.
While you'd think that eating elephants and lions, icons of wildlife conservation, would be illegal, it turns out it's not—neither under Zimbabwean nor international law. As of 1997, elephant populations in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe were deemed healthy enough to allow regulated hunts and the export of pachyderm products, like meat, which some say tastes of elk or moose. Zimbabwe even argues that it has more elephants than it can support, and accordingly encourages culls and consumption. Yet conservationists seem to believe that state officials have inflated these numbers and are shooting themselves in the foot by destroying the country's heritage, biodiversity, and draw for the vital tourism industry. The US, for its part, banned Zimbabwean elephant products in 2014 for fears about insufficient poaching controls, but this has no bearing on local or international laws.
Lion, as a threatened but not critically endangered species, is fair game for controlled hunts in Africa and even breeders in America, who kill big cats for trophies or food.
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Do you think Cecil tastes any good?
I don’t know about lion meat but they served it (mountain lion) in Happy Camp, CA during WWII according to my parents. I’ve eaten or attempted to eat bear leg roast. It required a cold chisel and single jack to cut.
Do elephants go well with cheese??
This is about one thing. People that grew up on Disney cartoons think they are real.
Just wait when Peta hears about this! {crickets}
According to what I just heard; Cecil was about 17 years old, probably tough, stringy and gamey.
Wouldn’t want to chow down on him.
I don’t know, but rhino goes well with wine.
Report I heard said he was 12 or 13. But probably still stringy...
When I was working in NYC, a co-worker’s fiance was visiting from Africa. He said it’s common to eat monkey meat. Also, another friend said he has tried hippo meat.
NOOOOO thank you!!
Cecil was too old to hunt on his own and had become a danger to humans. A pet to some, he was a menace and needed to be culled for the safety of the pride and the locals.
Lions are "vulnerable" but hardly about to go extinct.
The whole Cecil thing is entirely manufactured.
People that grew up on Disney cartoons think they are real.
That’s the idiots who try and pet the damn things.
This is about poaching. Tying a carcass to a vehicle and slowly dragging it along so an old male lion would follow. Once out side of it’s sanctuary, shooting it with a cross bow because you’re already a convicted felon, and poacher, and then letting the animal stumble around and bleed for 40 hours before finally putting the beast out of it’s misery.
He then took it’s head, and pelt, and left the rest rotting in the African sun (although I’m sure the local animals didn’t let it go to waste).
This guy is a grade a buttwipe, and I hope he does time in a Zimbabwe prison.
Before you accuse me of being anti-hunting go back and read my posts from last night on this subject.
There is a reason all real hunters despise poachers.
It never occurred to me that a legislative body might ban consumption of a particular type of meat other than from homo sapiens.
If you read Jim Rogers ‘Investment Biker’ he encounters monkey meat IIRC in what is now DR Congo.
He may be all that indeed. It’s an animal. It’s not a human.
Yeah but you’re going to need a REALLY BIG cracker. :=)
I make a point to order whale sushi when I am in Japan. It’s delicious.
In the (partly staged) film “Faces of Death”, a table is prepared and tourists are served monkey brain, from a live monkey...
Never claimed it was, and also am not calling for his execution, but calling it an animal doesn’t lessen the cruelty involved in this kill.
Being inhumane to an animal, and being cruel to a child are equally reprehensible.
I can’t abide a person that does either.
I don’t believe that animals have rights. To have rights you must also bear responsibility. Therefore it is our responsibility to make sure we don’t abuse the power we hold over them.
I agree completely. But the more liberals overreact, the farther that gets from reality.
Pass on the monkey. Hippo now...
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