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I'm no PETA supporter (they are a domestic terrorist organization) but that so-called "hunt" is just sick. Spotlighting & shooting (NOT hunting) elephants and trying to make yourself out a hero for helping the natives at the same time. FAIL! Money & power trip for trophy is all this was. Bad form, really bad form.
signed, a huntress.
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.
I'm no PETA supporter (they are a domestic terrorist organization) but that so-called "hunt" is just sick. Spotlighting & shooting (NOT hunting) elephants and trying to make yourself out a hero for helping the natives at the same time. FAIL! Money & power trip for trophy is all this was. Bad form, really bad form.
"Now, there are so many things wrong with this video that it's hard to know where to start. First off: is it really appropriate to score a scene of hungry villagers in Zimbabwe tearing apart a dead elephant to the tunes of AC/DC's "Hells Bells"? And I can't be the only one who found it creepy that Parsons had outfitted nearly everyone in the area with bright orange GoDaddy baseball caps. Not to mention the fact that this is all taking place in Zimbabwe, a broken country oppressed by the tyrannical Robert Mugabe, where 64% of the population lives under the poverty line and nearly 100% live in fear. This is one step up from taking spring break in North Korea."
The authors objection is without merit. It circles around a subjective objection to the manner to which they did it, which is absurd.
The CEO was 100% in the right here.
Elephant was a problem, infringing on the peoples food source in a country where food is at the top of their list of problems.
Look at the idiot's complaints.
He complains that they killed the elephant rather than shooing it away with environmental tactics. Yet he goes on to claim that the CEO is taking advantage of these people by giving them hats and using it as an advertising ploy.
Lets see... He solves the villages problem AND the village gets a bonus through the elephant's remains. Sure, you can whine on like a complete moron about how he gets advertising out of it and object to stupid things like the choice of music he uses in the video, but in the end, all we have is another idiot animal activist pushing their subjective useless garbage and one who WASN'T a part of the solution to the villages problem.
Extremely typical of animal activists as they push their subjective opinions on others and the result creates more hardships on people in the process. The only thing that author cares about is listening to the sound of their own voice as they drone on about how much they care and how evil others are for not toeing the line of their emotional thinking.
PETA is a joke. I believe some of the things that they do, that animals should be treated ethically and humanely, even when we eat them or use them for medical experiments.
But they have turned that sentiment into a bad joke. Their efforts have been, from what I can tell, entirely counterproductive.
I'm no PETA supporter (they are a domestic terrorist organization) but that so-called "hunt" is just sick. Spotlighting & shooting (NOT hunting) elephants and trying to make yourself out a hero for helping the natives at the same time. FAIL! Money & power trip for trophy is all this was. Bad form, really bad form.
signed, a huntress.
I completely agree. It has been well documented that PETA provides financial support to both ELF and ALF. I am also adamantly opposed to shooting critters for "sport." I have been hunting since age 8, and the very first rule my father taught me was "if you shoot it, you eat it."
Godaddy CEO Bob Parson traveled to Africa to rid a village of a problem elephant - and posted the kill on his blog. PETA responded by giving him their "first-ever Scummiest CEO of the Year Award". Parsons replied "I understand PETA has an agenda, but I refuse to go along with their extortion-style practice."
Hunting Problem Elephant - My 2011 Vacation - Video.ME (http://www.video.me/ViewVideo.aspx?vid=380843 - broken link) (video - but no buxom GoDaddy babes) Go Daddy Founder & CEO Bob Parsons' Personal Blog
Yet they kill over 85% of all the animals it takes in.
I'm no PETA supporter (they are a domestic terrorist organization) but that so-called "hunt" is just sick. Spotlighting & shooting (NOT hunting) elephants and trying to make yourself out a hero for helping the natives at the same time. FAIL! Money & power trip for trophy is all this was. Bad form, really bad form.
signed, a huntress.
Yet, the main point is the purpose of the venture which solved a villages problem with destroyed crops and put food on their table in the process.
I could understand your position if this guy was simply out running around tagging elephants as you describe for simply sport, but that was not what I saw in the video. There was a problem, and he provided a solution that had multiple benefits. You can object to his mannerisms out of a matter of taste and the like, but the result of his venture was quite appropriate and met the needs of the people there.
We used to go out and do mass coon hunting runs to bring down the populations. we used methods that were often not "sporting", but then... our objective was not specifically sport, but serving a purpose of population control.
Godaddy CEO Bob Parson traveled to Africa to rid a village of a problem elephant - and posted the kill on his blog. PETA responded by giving him their "first-ever Scummiest CEO of the Year Award". Parsons replied "I understand PETA has an agenda, but I refuse to go along with their extortion-style practice."
Hunting Problem Elephant - My 2011 Vacation - Video.ME (http://www.video.me/ViewVideo.aspx?vid=380843 - broken link) (video - but no buxom GoDaddy babes) Go Daddy Founder & CEO Bob Parsons' Personal Blog
After reading all the replies, I don't think many read the article. They just do the usual blowing off steam instead of actually reading WHY the elephant was shot. "rid a village of a problem elephant".
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