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wasoxygen · 3395 days ago · link · · parent · post: Eating chicken is morally worse than killing Cecil the lion
Semi-related:Everyone likes animals, so killing them is wrong, right? The fact is that there’s far more nuance to the argument than that.
Walt has been photographed with at least one lion kill, previous to the one that caused the current furor, as well as other animals native to Africa. It’s been reported that he paid up to $55,000 for this latest hunt. That’s at least $100,000 that he’s personally put into African economies, money that wouldn’t have been spent if there weren’t lions to hunt. That’s money which is a specific economic motivation for conservation. How much money have you and your Facebook friends contributed directly to big game conservation in Africa? I’m guessing that for most of you, it’s much, much less.