Blood Lions: A Call to Stop Canned Lion Hunting

[Lakhota]

Ban hunting.

Period.

BAN IT.

No thanks. I love deer and elk meat. All my hunting is fair chase.

 

[RodISHI]

The death of a beloved lion named Cecil, at the hands of an American hunter in Zimbabwe, struck a nerve around the globe. The debate about the ethics of that hunt still provokes strong emotions. On Wednesday, October 7th, MSNBC will focus on another side of the industry, the legal side. Blood Lions, a one hour documentary, takes viewers inside the seldom seen world of the “canned hunting” industry in South Africa.

With the help of Ian Michler, safari operator and environmental journalist and Rick Swazey, an American hunter, viewers will see inside the breeding farms where lions are bred for a variety of exploitative revenue streams.

“Our film is an exposé,” says Blood Lions director Bruce Young, “most of the lions exist in appalling conditions, exploited at every stage of their lives. Even the people in South Africa do not know that lions are being bred for the bullet – and that it is totally legal. We want to show the world what is going on, who is involved, the impact on the animals and how much money is being generated by this industry.”

Also known as captive bred lion hunting, canned hunts allow hunters to select their lion ahead of time and complete a hunt in a matter of just three days. Canned hunts provide a cheaper, faster, and a surefire way of hunting predatory animals, compared to wild lion hunts which may last weeks with a much lower probability of success. Americans are largely fueling the industry, with 62% of the trophies being imported into the United States, according to Humane Society International.

The documentary includes the perspective of both proponents of this practice who say that hunting helps preserve Africa’s lion population and conservationists who are quick to dispute that claim.

Catch the premiere of Blood Lions, Wednesday October 7th at 10pm ET on MSNBC.

"Blood Lions" premieres Wednesday October 7th on MSNBC

Blood Lions™ - A Call to Stop Canned Lion Hunting

Canned hunting is very dishonorable to the hunter and to the prey. Actually, canned hunting is not hunting - it's just killing, much like in a slaughterhouse.

Not that I am for canned hunts but why is it that so many so called Americans are bitching about this when they have canned hunts all over America?

I missed where anyone said it was okay to torment wildlife here but not there.

I don't see where anyone is objecting to it so furiously?

 

[Luddly Neddite]

This is almost like clubbing baby seals.

That is wrong, if you must take them for fur, a bullet in the head stops the pain!

Do you ever think about what you write?

 

[Two Thumbs]

1 lion gets killed and the leftist world goes off it's nut

But I love the catchy name; 'blood lions'

we should call pp the Blood bowl

maybe then leftist will give a fuck

 

[Vigilante]

This is almost like clubbing baby seals.

That is wrong, if you must take them for fur, a bullet in the head stops the pain!

Do you ever think about what you write?

Yes, Fugly, I use common sense and reasoning, you, and your cohorts use EMOTIONS only.... Part of the difference between liberal and conservative!

 

[RodISHI]

This is almost like clubbing baby seals.

That is wrong, if you must take them for fur, a bullet in the head stops the pain!

Do you ever think about what you write?

Why you like to take issue with it?

 

[Sallow]

Just saw it. It was a well researched and damning piece.

Canned hunting is a disgusting and reprehensible practice.

 

[Vigilante]

1 lion gets killed and the leftist world goes off it's nut

But I love the catchy name; 'blood lions'

we should call pp the Blood bowl

maybe then leftist will give a fuck

Yes, they have NO REASONING when it comes to PRIORITIES...It's CUTE we must love it, a BABY....YUCK, bloody and wrinkled!

 

[Lakhota]

This is almost like clubbing baby seals.

That is wrong, if you must take them for fur, a bullet in the head stops the pain!

Do you ever think about what you write?

Yes, Fugly, I use common sense and reasoning, you, and your cohorts use EMOTIONS only.... Part of the difference between liberal and conservative!

Yeah, NaziCons are so brave and bloodthirsty. I guess that's why they're too chickenshit to take a shit without having a gun within reach.

 

[Rustic]

I am not a leftward or a bleeding heart progressive

That doesn't mean that I don't love and care for all animal life!

Shame on all of you!

There is no great number of canned hunts in Africa... By far most animals killed in Africa are for bush meat.
These shows are playing to the emotions of the candy a$$es... These shows are like reality shows... Not an once of truth to them.

Don't believe these a$$ hats...

Is that a deer head you have on your avatar Rustic?
Sad.

Yes, it is I hunt for grouse, mule deer, whitetail deer, mountain lion, elk, bobcat, among many others every year.
It is one of the great joys in life for me and my kids(yes two girls) it's wonderful life experience.

 

[Vigilante]

This is almost like clubbing baby seals.

That is wrong, if you must take them for fur, a bullet in the head stops the pain!

Do you ever think about what you write?

Yes, Fugly, I use common sense and reasoning, you, and your cohorts use EMOTIONS only.... Part of the difference between liberal and conservative!

Yeah, NaziCons are so brave and bloodthirsty. I guess that's why they can't take a shit without having a gun within reach.

I believe Fugly was talking about you and stupidity! And YOU HUNT, is that what you said, and YOU said this, you FORKED TONGUE Indian slut!

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Do not hunt animals

Hunt among yourselves...how about that?

I have no problem with that.

Leave animal life alone!

I hope your kidding??

I wish you would harvest each other.

On the face of it, I don't disagree with hunting. But, the fact of it is a horror. Hunters do terrible damage to natural populations, they leave their damn beer cans and trash everywhere they go - do they ALL drink Bud lite?

Vigilante - you are wrong that deer starve if they're not hunted. Deer are often used as the poster child for wildlife mgmt but in fact, its a natural disaster and the biggest failure of wildlife management in our history. Hunters almost wiped them out before the govt started "regulating" their slaughter. That management has been so completely screwed up that deer are now considered vermin in some areas.

In order to give hunters their target practice, deer are "managed" to cause more breeding, more fawns, more death by starvation. But, if there are so many deer that they have to be culled, why does your govt pay deer farms to breed more? Google deer farms.

There is much more to hunting than deer though. By far and away, most of the killing is of birds.

But there's good news: hunting is becoming less and less popular. The last figure I knew was that only about 6% of the population hunts. This does not mean than 94% are against hunting. It just means that's the number of permits sold. There are also poachers but I have less problem with subsistence poaching a deer a year to feed one's family, than slob hunters.

Don't believe hunters when they tell you they are "conservationists" either. They contribute but not as much as Saturday afternoon plunkers. When they talk about how they conserve, they're really talking about the Pittman–Robertson Act which started out being a good idea but, of course, has been totally wreaked.

As we used to say during the Vietnam era, killing for conservation is like fucking for chastity.

Yep - I wish they'd harvest each other.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Do not hunt animals

Hunt among yourselves...how about that?

I have no problem with that.

Leave animal life alone!

I hope your kidding??

Leftists value animals above people.

Liar.

Human beings are quite capable of caring about, respecting and protecting both human and non-human animals.

Just because you can't doesn't mean every one else suffers from the same birth defect.

 

[Rustic]

I am not a leftward or a bleeding heart progressive

That doesn't mean that I don't love and care for all animal life!

Shame on all of you!

There is no great number of canned hunts in Africa... By far most animals killed in Africa are for bush meat.
These shows are playing to the emotions of the candy a$$es... These shows are like reality shows... Not an once of truth to them.

Don't believe these a$$ hats...

Actually, Africa and other countries make much more money from photo safaris.

Most canned hunts in the US are in Texasss and feed no one.

Wrong, most meat from these hunting reserves go to locals and/or hunters for the hungry programs.
Don't be a dolt.

 

[Rustic]

You pitiful fool, you obviously didn't read any of the OP. This lions are explicitly raised for "canned" hunts. You've heard of puppy mills - well, these are lion mills.

And as with PUPPY BREEDERS, there should be REGULATIONS, overseas by the gov't involved, and checks to NOT overkill anything. BUT Squaw, it's INBRED in man to hunt, because queers and liberals don't have that "GENE" doesn't make it WRONG for hunting to be done, especilally if the MEAT is used to feed poor Africans ...even YOU want poor Africans fed, don't you?

You're amazingly stupid but you've accidentally hit on what I consider to be a good test of our actions.

Ask yourself if you would be okay with a particular action if it was done to puppies and kittens.

Would you be okay with putting puppies and kittens in a small fenced enclosure and charging thousands of dollars to shoot at them?

How about greased pig contests? Those are baby animals, unaccustomed to being handled and they're turned loose in a small enclosure for children to chase and injure and torment. You okay with doing the same to puppies and kittens?

That's just it Fugly, they DON'T do that, and with say a Michael Vick case, he deserved much worse that hew got. It's a matter of what man is allowed BY LAW to do...if YOU don't like what is legal, as you are doing here, keep talking about it, BUT you are a HYPOCRITE when it come to KILLING UNBORN HUMANS, and no matter what you say, you are scum and deserve to be treated as such by all of us that sanctify human life ...over other animals! Your RIGHTEOUS bullshit doesn't fly in the face of your HYPOCRISY!

Lions are threatened or endangered in every single population around the world but that's not the point here.

Zoos breed animals because the public wants to see babies. Remember the giraffe that was killed in front of kids and fed to other zoo animals? That was so they would have space to have more babies, who, in turn, would be killed.

There are on line sites where you can buy animals that have been bred for no other reason than to increase traffic to zoos. Those animals are tame. They are put into small enclosures for limp-dicked assholes (like some in this thread) to PRETEND to hunt.

I've seen a video of big cat released from cages and running under a pick up to hide. The aforementioned limp-dicked assholes actually had to shoot the cat under the truck, drag the carcass out to take that all important FAKE trophy photo.

Before you decide that some animals have a right to live without being hunted by their NATURAL predators (like limp-dicked asshole Vigilante says about zebras above), you might want to educate yourself about the natural world and the balance or predator and prey.

If they own the animals they can do what they want with them... No ones else's business.

Not really, even here the ASPCA regulates how many dogs you can have in a home, and has officers to inspect and arrest for cruelty!

I was talking about game ranches in Africa...

 

[Lakhota]

I was born and raised in a hunting culture. Thankfully, I was taught the proper ethics - to honor and respect the animal and the land - and never take more than I need. Canned hunting honors nothing.

 

[RodISHI]

I am not a leftward or a bleeding heart progressive

That doesn't mean that I don't love and care for all animal life!

Shame on all of you!

There is no great number of canned hunts in Africa... By far most animals killed in Africa are for bush meat.
These shows are playing to the emotions of the candy a$$es... These shows are like reality shows... Not an once of truth to them.

Don't believe these a$$ hats...

Actually, Africa and other countries make much more money from photo safaris.

Most canned hunts in the US are in Texasss and feed no one.

Wrong, most meat from these hunting reserves go to locals and/or hunters for the hungry programs.
Don't be a dolt.

No blue nose (chronic wasting or Epizootic hemorrhagic disease) in Texas the deer populations?

 

[Rustic]

This is almost like clubbing baby seals.

There you go again, that bleeding heart river is going to flood if you don't watch out...
Washington redskin

 

[skye]

I am not a leftward or a bleeding heart progressive

That doesn't mean that I don't love and care for all animal life!

Shame on all of you!

There is no great number of canned hunts in Africa... By far most animals killed in Africa are for bush meat.
These shows are playing to the emotions of the candy a$$es... These shows are like reality shows... Not an once of truth to them.

Don't believe these a$$ hats...

Is that a deer head you have on your avatar Rustic?
Sad.

Yes, it is I hunt for grouse, mule deer, whitetail deer, mountain lion, elk, bobcat, among many others every year.
It is one of the great joys in life for me and my kids(yes two girls) it's wonderful life experience.

I'm sure it is for you.

But not for those poor animals.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

This is almost like clubbing baby seals.

That is wrong, if you must take them for fur, a bullet in the head stops the pain!

Do you ever think about what you write?

Yes, Fugly, I use common sense and reasoning, you, and your cohorts use EMOTIONS only.... Part of the difference between liberal and conservative!

Yeah, NaziCons are so brave and bloodthirsty. I guess that's why they're too chickenshit to take a shit without having a gun within reach.

They're scared to go to the grocery store without putting their penis gun in a holster first.

Vigilante says I and others have posted only emotion and yet, every one of my posts has been factual while his and "Rustic" the trophy hunter has been all about emotion.

I am not a leftward or a bleeding heart progressive

That doesn't mean that I don't love and care for all animal life!

Shame on all of you!

There is no great number of canned hunts in Africa... By far most animals killed in Africa are for bush meat.
These shows are playing to the emotions of the candy a$$es... These shows are like reality shows... Not an once of truth to them.

Don't believe these a$$ hats...

Actually, Africa and other countries make much more money from photo safaris.

Most canned hunts in the US are in Texasss and feed no one.

Wrong, most meat from these hunting reserves go to locals and/or hunters for the hungry programs.
Don't be a dolt.

No blue nose (chronic wasting or Epizootic hemorrhagic disease) in Texas the deer populations?

That too has been caused and exacerbated by hunting and hunters.