Most safari outfitters offer a menu of game that clients can choose from. It's like shopping from a catalogue.
Looking down these lists is slightly surreal. Everything is on offer, including porcupine ($250 - is it possible people really hunt these?), warthog ($300), on through a multitude of indistinguishable deer-like species, up to the big ticket items: $8,000 for a hippo, $14,000 for a buffalo, between $25,000 and $35,000 for a male lion, and between $50,000 and $100,000 for a rhino.
It was all quite weird, but I became intrigued by the element of pretence in what was being offered - the outfitters were selling an old-fashioned idea of man-against-nature while secretly working the scenery in the wings. There was a whiff of theme park about the whole thing.
Read more on safari hunting in South Africa here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7329425.stm
To IceClass , that criticized me for saving sea gulls:
" Albert Schweitzer said that: "All life is sacred." Let's go further and realise it's all sacred - down to the curve in this hill, the colour of that rippled sand, the way the sea current sets between those particular rocks, the ones with the green lichen, where the seagulls like to sit and screech at high tide."
" "The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him." Tolstoy via Jim. "
Sort of paraphrased by Mark Twain as
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."
And a quote for users of a certain principle -
"The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny" Richard Hofstadter
(found in a local newsletter)
I have to give it to you, Ann, you are the queen of the humourous Freudian slip.
Russel asks if I'm a vegetarian/ fruitarian.
No, no I'm not as healthy as that 😉 . I'm into junk food , pasta, chocolate cakes , whipped cream, beer , whine , you name it , but hardly never meat.
> fruitarian
The term is frugivore.
So come on Travis and Ann are you fruitarian? If not please explain how you can bear to eat the corpses of other living things.
P.S. Far out I've had the book thrown at me before, but never "War and Piece"
>the ignorant urban green,
>You are a perfect demonstration of those people for whom the word "care" does not come with any action attached.
>You claim you 'care' for wildlife but you take no action, and certainly provide no funds that would assist in the delivery of care to wildlife.
>You simply "don't care", because you never actually "provide care".
Rant, rant, crap on. LOL!
Mott you have no idea what I do, have done or anything about me. It is proof that you post unsubstantiated rubbish. It's laughable what a fraud you are.
>you are never there to help and you are never there to minimise the harm done to the landscape while they desperately scavenge for food.
Tell me Mott, how do you *know*? You don't! Plain and simple. So quit making up Mott porkies to suit your dopey justification about...canned hunting??
Russell E wrote:-
>Ann: do you also want to ban prostitution or pornography?
>Jokes aside, the point I am trying to make is that just because it's not your choice to do certain things is no reason to deny that right to everyone else, unless of course your branch of politics is totalitarianism.
Without doubt the majority of users of prostitution and pornography in the world would be males, and they would be viewing women. I am not convinced that many women choose these 'careers' because they like it. They are on hard times and need to support themselves, their families, their drug habits, they may even be kidapped and forced into such activities.
Prostitution and pornography can be activities that harm individuals for the purpose of providing pleasure to others. But I guess you'll be saying at least it provides employment.
Your comparison of canned hunting with prostitution and pornography is the best support yet that canned hunting is for wankers. Your comparison of voluntarily taking life for fun with giving birth is proof you are a sicko.
I knew I saw Motty out there past Quilpie with a water bag going round giving poor dying roos a drink. Shame on you Travis - where's your committment....
Funny that they cut their heads off so you can't see the shooters' accuracy though.