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30 People Share “Really Dumb” Hobbies That Only Rich People Seem To Like
Miglė Miliūtė and Vėja Elkimavičiūtė
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#15 Canned hunts.
We can argue the ethics of hunting all day long. On the one hard, you have the cruel barbarism of fox hunting. On the other hand, you had paid permit hunting for big, exotic game (*where the permit only allows for specifically designated culls and profit goes directly to conservation).
But canned hunting? F**k. At least fox hunting and permit hunting require some measure of skill and afford some opportunity for the animal to escape.
Canned hunts are often marketed as “exotic game ranches;” places people go to get a guaranteed kill of a particular species. You know how you get that guaranteed kill? Because the game are fenced in and are often reliant on human care (so they have limited fear of humans compared to their wild roaming counterparts). There’s nothing sporting about it.
Imagine going to a dairy farm and bragging about how you bagged a big cow. That’s what canned hunting sounds like to others.
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I can applaud hunters, who like the Zulu youth when they go out to become man by hunting a lion with a short spear and small reed shield. I don’t know what the win – loss ratio is but, at least, the lion has a fair shot. And it’s their tradition, not mine.
I can tolerate those who hunt for food if they eat what they kill. Also, those who do permit hunting to conserve a species. Even those who hun bears before they become dangerous to people and donate the captures to food pantries and soup kitchens.
I can not shame those “hunters”, who are cruel or use “canned” victims, enough.
Nothing can be more demeaning than to claim a great achievement when “shooting fish in a barrel”.
Argh!
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