Lets get real here please, you eat (or at least the average human) 5+ cows in his lifetime and that kind of elephants are not an endangered specie.
It was Bob Parsons going to Africa in this "Great White Hunter" role, acting as though he were there to help the poor backwards natives who needed the elephant killed to protect their crops.
The reality is that he got a juvenile macho thrill out of the whole thing, from his patronizing handout of gaily colored GoDaddy hats for villagers to his gory video attempting to glamorize himself.
Yes, I love elephants and believe there are other ways to deal with some trampled crops besides shooting them. But the real point was what a lowlife Bob Parsons is, no matter what particular activity he's engaged in.
We, however, spare no thought about eating caged animals that were raised to be killed.
What's worse?
We, however, spare no thought about eating caged
animals that were raised to be killed.
On the other hand killing wild animals should be considered a crime.
Animals eat animals because they have no other choice, but humans have the knowledge and empathy to live without killing.
Cruelty is a human-invented concept. Hunting should be considered a crime because it brings irreversible changes to our planet.
(I’m no vegetarian.)
The idea that most of the meat we eat was once animals grazing on grass has sadly been untrue for a very long time.
Most cows, pigs, and chickens are raised in tightly-packed conditions, and fed things you really don't want to know about. There are grains in there, but a lot of nasty things get mixed in with them.
A lot of land that could go to raising human food instead goes to growing soybeans, corn and grain that are fed to livestock. You're right that we can't just divert the grains from animals to people, but if that land were used to raise human instead of animal food, we'd be able to produce 16x as much food by volume as we do with meat.
For the record, I eat meat, and I have few qualms about eating caged animals, but arguing it as more humane is beyond perplexing to me.
By your logic, we should all universally also have no issue with hunting dogs or cats or really any goddamn animal not on the brink of extinction.
Plus, it was an isolated decision of a member of godaddy, there was no meeting at godaddy to decide the killing of the elephant.
Still, paying to do the shooting is even creepier than hunting an elephant. Forget the tracking, stalking, and pay to just enjoy the killing? Eww. Imagine the Humane Society auctioning off a day operating the kitty gas chamber.