re: Founder of Jimmy Johns is a big game hunter. ( people upset)

I do not understand the pleasure that is derived from hunting. I never had and I never will.In fact, I think in retirement I will devote my time to animal shelters and such, so much do I love our furry little friends. That said, I always laugh that the people who get ridiculously wound up about such things always prescribe violence as the solution to the problem. "He killed an animal. Kill him !".

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Thousands more people travel to Africa to view and photograph these animals in their natural environment than do people who go to hunt them.

They're more valuable alive than dead.

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You seem to be missing, or willfully ignoring, a few key points. Africa is a huge place. Just because elephants are extirpated in one area, does not mean they aren't a nuance in another. Secondly, a lot of time the tags for these animals are sold at auction with a specific animal legally tied to a specific tag. If you spent a couple hundred thousand dollars on a governors tag to hunt Mule deer in Utah, you can shoot any mule deer you want in your assigned unit. Where as Africa might sell a tag for a specific black rhino that may be no longer viable for reproduction or a danger to other Animals. If it has to be culled to protect the population, why not sell the opportunity to hunt and use the money to fund whatever project they have in the area. Could be used to pay the salary of security personnel, breeding programs, research, ect ect ect.

Lets say you have 10 black rhinos left in a given area. 4 are in their breeding prime, 2 are calves, and 2 are yearlings who are not yet viable. The 2 remaining animals are no longer viable for reproduction, with 1 being a bull who's already killed two younger male rhinos. A lot of times this is where big game hunting can be a conservation tool. That male rhino must be culled, unless you plan on talking to him about being nice to other young male rhinos. Why not auction off the opportunity to shoot that bull and use that money to fund your rhino herd?

I don't know the jimmy johns guy so I cant' speak for his hunts but like it or not there are times where big game hunting is helpful for the survival of a species.

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More like in the pocket of the guide service owner and his guides.

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the people who have an interest in keeping their populations healthy

also many of these operations are based around scientific data for culling herds or removing specific animals that will be killed anyway.

article about culling lion populations

this is just for lions, but the 3 things killing lions and affecting populations are (1) habitat loss, (2) farmer killing to protect expanded human habitats, and (3) lions (who have less habitat and more competition).

article on the infamous black rhino hunt a few years ago

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Since 2004, both Namibia and South Africa have each had annual hunting quotas of up to five black rhino bulls approved by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES -- an organization formulated by the IUCN).
Only specific, surplus males are hunted, with each case considered on its merits.

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Not a single country has hunted five black rhino bulls per year -- the quota approved by CITES, indicating that conservation, rather than profit, has been driving the hunting. The maximum quotas approved currently represent only 0.24% and 0.29% of the national rhino population in each country. Clearly, rhino hunting levels have also been sustainable.

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do you think he does it because he wants to feed poor people? or he gets his kicks killing animals?

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This is a silly argument. If he got his kicks killing animals he could just go down to the local humane society and spend an afternoon killing cats and dogs by the dozens in air conditioned comfort. Not spend more money than you will see in life time to stand out in the heat for for a small opportunity to shoot something.

Boy does he have an extreme case of punchable face disease.

While this was news two years ago, I do think it takes a pussy to go pay a bunch of money to go shoot endangered animals. Going somewhere, being put in position to not be in danger of the animal and then just pointing a gun and pulling the trigger isn't fricking hunting.

He sucks just as much as his sandwiches.

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but there are lots of markets that i don't get and won't participate in that are important economically

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From an economical standpoint i get it, but what happens when that well runs dry?

Tpos, and what a waste.

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From an economical standpoint i get it, but what happens when that well runs dry?

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big game hunting operators have enough stake in the game to make sure this doesn't happen

that is how they are preserving these animals by hunting them

Making sandwiches is for women.