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Ask Zimbabweans: "Cecil the Lion" ?? First-World Problem
Reuters, via YAHOO! ^
| 30 July 2015
| MacDonald Dzirutwe
Posted on 07/30/2015 8:42:37 AM PDT by Salgak
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Game, set, and match. This is a First World Problem, and just more Bread and Circuses to engage the peasantry. . .
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posted on
07/30/2015 8:42:38 AM PDT
by
Salgak
To: Salgak
It's a #LionsLivesMatter thing, but of course only when a white man is doing the killing.
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posted on
07/30/2015 8:45:13 AM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: Salgak; Slings and Arrows
Wasn’t the uproar because “Cecil” was coaxed off of a wildlife reserve and then the hunter advised he was available to be shot.
Well these wild cats go onto and off of these wildlife reserves all the time. If they were serious about protecting that lion, they should have kept it penned in.
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posted on
07/30/2015 8:46:36 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: Salgak
When you end the hunting, you end the conservation.
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posted on
07/30/2015 8:47:14 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
To: BitWielder1
Shouldn’t that be #PawsUpDon’tShoot ?
To: Salgak
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posted on
07/30/2015 8:50:10 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: BitWielder1
Welcome to Utopian Zimbabwe
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posted on
07/30/2015 8:50:33 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
To: Salgak
Giving a name to a lion does not make it human. Calling a baby-in-development a mass of tissue does not make it non-human.
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posted on
07/30/2015 8:51:34 AM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
To: Salgak
Reminds me of my favorite all-time South Park episode, about the Rainforest:
“You white Americans make me sick! You waste food, oil, and everything else because youre so rich, and then you tell the rest of the world to save the rainforest because you like its pretty flowers.
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posted on
07/30/2015 8:51:38 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Salgak
As with many countries in Africa, in Zimbabwe big wild animals such as lions, elephants or hippos are seen either as a potential meal, or a threat to people and property that needs to be controlled or killed. No kidding. If these animals were native to the Americas, we'd have killed them off a long time ago. They are extremely dangerous. Hippos and elephants, in their individual categories, kill more humans in Africa than lions, and lions kill hundreds a year.
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posted on
07/30/2015 8:52:14 AM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
To: cripplecreek
When you end the hunting, you end the conservation. An "Inconvenient Truth."
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posted on
07/30/2015 8:52:33 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Salgak
"Why are the Americans more concerned than us?" said Joseph Mabuwa, a 33-year-old father-of-two cleaning his car in the center of the capital. "We never hear them speak out when villagers are killed by lions and elephants in Hwange."And you NEVER will. You'll also not hear much about how American doctors are butchering innocent babies...but in less crunchy ways, so that they can sell their organs and tissue!
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posted on
07/30/2015 8:53:46 AM PDT
by
pgkdan
(But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
To: Salgak
More proof that liberalism is a mental disease.
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posted on
07/30/2015 8:54:02 AM PDT
by
samtheman
(Trump/Cruz '16)
To: dfwgator
The hunting and tourism make good economic sense and the only way to keep that money coming is with healthy animal populations.
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posted on
07/30/2015 8:56:46 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
To: Salgak
Exactly! We in the West have a profound tendency to anthropomorphize animals of every flavor. Hunting deer is one thing, but hunting “Bambi” quite another. Lions are hunted all the time in Africa, but call one “Cecil” or the “national pet” (even if it’s a pet that most Zimbabweans have never heard of), it becomes a tragedy.
Maasai warriors kill lions all the time in defense of their cattle, with little to no outcry from the West. However, let a rancher in Montana kill a [reintroduced] wolf or grizzly that’s preying on his cattle, it’s a felony and the outcry is deafening...
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posted on
07/30/2015 9:00:19 AM PDT
by
ManHunter
(You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
To: ManHunter
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posted on
07/30/2015 9:07:15 AM PDT
by
Kozy
To: I want the USA back
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posted on
07/30/2015 9:09:30 AM PDT
by
buridan
To: ManHunter
Who mourns for all the zebras that Cecil killed?
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posted on
07/30/2015 9:09:40 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: ManHunter
We also worry about the way animals are killed so they don’t suffer which is good but we also don’t take into account certain facts in other parts of the world.
You mentioned Maasai warriors who I’ve read will run an animal to death over several days while inflicting repeated superficial wounds.
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posted on
07/30/2015 9:10:53 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
To: Salgak
Same deal with elephants. They’ve been elevated to a position of worship by many in the Western world while the locals live in fear because the locals are allowed no guns and the elephants trample crops and anyone that gets in their way.
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