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Lions Are Raised So People Can Shoot Them In Cages (thedodo.com)

The world's in mourning over the death of Cecil, a beloved lion who was killed and beheaded this month after being lured out of his protected home in Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park.

 

Part of what makes Cecil's death stand out is the cheapness of it — his killers tied a dead animal to their truck and used it to lead Cecil across park lines. But thousands of lions just like Cecil are being killed with even cheaper tactics each year.

 

Canned lion hunting is a big business in Africa, where wealthy tourists can pay tens of thousands of dollars to claim they "hunted" a lion — which consists of placing a hand-reared lion in an enclosed space and shooting him. Hundreds of lions die this way each year, many of them killed by Americans. And their lives are short and sad, with cubs pawned off as tourist attractions until they're big enough to slaughter.

 

To see more on this blog by  Ameena Schelling see this link:

 

 https://www.thedodo.com/canned...;utm_campaign=buffer

 

 

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This breaks my heart.  How can we care for children when we are so callous to allow this to occur?  Also though, if people are starving (which I don't know if this is the case), how can we be angry in an economy based on capitalist needs?  

 

I should think we can do better? Be better?  Can't we? 

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