How much meat have you brought back into Canada from Africa? I'd be interested to know how you did it.
Have you hunted lion or giraffe in Africa? How much of either did you eat? Spare me the usual Bwana BS about "the meat went to poor villagers."
Trusting or willfully blind? The PH set up on the border of a conservation area, used bait to lure the animal out of the protected area and the dentist shot it from a secure blind. It's like setting up a blind on the edge of African Lion Safari near Rockton and popping the first critter lured off the property.
PETA doesn't study the animals. Scientists do and they study them in protected areas where hunting is not allowed. The animals who get shot are lured out of those areas by unethical PHs and their low-life clients who are happy to look the other way just as long as they get their trophy.
I don't know if there is a legal way to bring meat back...I certainly didn't try to do it myself. I insisted on at least one meal from each critter, because I wanted to try them all. Despite your self-righteous smirking, I know that all meat was utilized. Animals shot on a privately-owned property in Botswana (over a quarter million acres, so please don't start with the high-fence nonsense) were used to feed the staff, and the choicest stuff was sold on the market (totally legal). Caprivi strip buffalo meat belonged to the villagers who "owned" the conservancy (a huge free-range area that encompassed a number of villages), and we were accompanied by a game scout or warden and required to transport the carcass back to the village and donate the meat. We had to formally request a bit for ourselves to try.
I hunted neither lion nor giraffe, but I would have insisted on trying the meat if I had shot one or the other. Whether or not I did would not have made a difference...when any animal is shot they utilize literally everything. Sorry if that doesn't fit into the framework of the picture you're trying to paint, but it is a fact. Game meat can be bought and sold legally in these places...it would be insane not to utilize it to the fullest degree. You say "poor villagers" in such a way as to imply that they aren't. Have you seen these people firsthand? Do you know anything about them, or have any idea of the sort of homes they live in, the sort of food they eat? I met a fellow in the Caprivi who was lucky enough to have one of the very limited lion permits that were available. He mentioned that one of the biggest problems he and his PH were having was the fact that lion baits were being stolen by the locals...they were eating the stuff. Meat hanging in a tree for several days in warm weather, putrified and dripping with maggots, was being stolen and eaten by these folks. Each assemblage of huts we visited usually surrounded a small clearing which contained a discarded oil drum, filled to the brim with warm green slimy fluid which we in Canada normally see only when we have our septic tanks pumped out...but over there this disgusting mixture was the latest batch of beer being brewed up. So how about this: why don't
you spare me
your BS?
I wasn't present when this guy shot his lion, so I don't know the details. You, on the other hand, seem to be familiar with all the facts surrounding the case, but somehow I don't trust you as a source any more than I trust the typical news media coverage of stories like this one. I saw a brief spot on TV a day or so ago about this story...when they used the term "murder" to describe the taking of this "beloved" animal, I switched the channel. I knew I'd soon be getting the "facts" from "experts" like you, so I didn't need the TV version.
And yes, studies are conducted by scientists, who may or may not have anything resembling legitimate credentials, but who do require funding and backing for their little camping trips. PETA does a lot of this type of sponsorship, and I
suspect they choose their beneficiaries with care, and with an eye towards furthering their own agenda. I also
suspect they quickly squash any studies that don't provide the findings they desire. Notice that I said that I "suspect" these things...I don't know them for a fact.
But, hey, I'll bet you do, and you'll quickly enlighten us all. Enjoy yourself.
...is that one also evil? I ate those bears...does that make killing them "kind of okay"?
