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I agree with you on pretty much everything you said here except for calling PETA a terrorist organization. They use outlandish stunts and are ridiculous in their rhetoric, but calling them domestic terrorists like ELF and ALF are takes it too far.
The GoDaddy CEO is being completely ridiculous here. As the Time editorial put it, this is really about a half-step up from spending spring break in North Korea. He seems to want to channel an inner Teddy Roosevelt but is actually coming off as a Richard Nixon.
if the hunt or the sport was done legally in the country he was in, then I dont care. if peta does not want him to do that shoot, then they should be the 1st to tell him to shoot them instead.
Maybe the trained circus kind or the ones in the zoo. Elephants in their natural habitat can be very dangerous and aggressive.
And that who you quote is a case and point of a person who has survived due to the gracious nature of human society as if nature had encountered such ignorance, dinner would be the name of such an occurrence.
And that who you quote is a case and point of a person who has survived due to the gracious nature of human society as if nature had encountered such ignorance, dinner would be the name of such an occurrence.
Oh please! It's pretty obvious to me that this egotist was looking for a trophy kill when he shot the elephant. I'm sure his PR team were desperately trying to get a positive spin out of the fiasco and came up with the "feeding the starving natives" aspect. Voila - free advertising. There are thousands of well qualified wildlife experts in that part of the world to deal with a common situation of badly behaved elephants. Yes, it is common. I doubt they needed the assistance of a professional frat boy software dude, completely unqualified in any aspect of the management and relocation of the African elephant. Spinning this as some altruistic gesture is very dishonest. If he seriously had the best interests of the people at heart he would have given them meaningful items instead of GoDaddy baseball hats.
I can see the commercials now:
"With just one bullet and a $20,000 payment to a Zimbabwe bureaucrat you too can feed an entire village for 3 months. In return we will send you a commemorative photo of your kill, and you don't even have to worry about the foster kids writing and bothering you - because we aren't spending a dime on education."
This guy wanted to shoot an elephant. At the very least he should just be honest and say he did it because he wanted to. He's done it before, and he'll do it again. It was not sanctioned by the government.
ETA: The first place I saw people eating elephant was as an exotic menu item in the US. I never saw or heard of people eating it in Zimbabwe.
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