“You do know, don’t you, that meat does not naturally come in little, Styrofoam trays? Someone had to kill that critter you et fer dinner last night. Some of us, however, are willing to do their own killing rather than pay someone else to do the dirty work.”
Wow, you should get the Nobel Prize for that critical thinking. Seriously, did that hunter kill the elephant for its meat? And who is talking about industrial meat industry. They raise their own animals and process them for food. They don’t go around hunting endangered animals for food. When is the Nobel commencement ceremony?
The locals get the meat from legally culled elephants. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to have my tux fitted. (Is a Real-Tree cummerbund over-the-top?)
This issue of hunting endangered wild animals like elephants, rhinos, tigers etc is not about private enterprise either. I’m an unapologetic pro-business, free-market guy and am hoping to make a living out of it.
Simply put, you cannot use property/resources that is not owned by you. For example, you can’t go to a zoo and steal panda cubs simply because you feel like it or you were commanded by God. The animals not owned by you are not your property and you can’t do anything about it, period.
Solution? Raise your own elephants and rhinos, inside your own compound, for their tusks and horns. Offer recreational hunting to hunters, in your own compound, and make money. No problem. But, don’t tell me it is free-enterprise to go around and kill wild animals in their natural habitat.