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re: Outrage alert: White woman hunts a giraffe in Africa, so you know what happens next
Posted on 7/3/18 at 8:07 am to Scruffy
Posted on 7/3/18 at 8:07 am to Scruffy
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They get emotionally worked up based on what some chump in Hollywood tells them and search for no further info.
Chill. I admit I didn't read the article.
I didn't get emotionally worked up
nor did it have anything to do with what someone in Hollywood said - sounds like a projection there. I didn't know giraffe was something people ate. That's my ignorance, nothing to do with faux outrage or anything else.
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Posted on 7/3/18 at 8:08 am to Sao
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She had to know she was sticking her neck out there for criticism in this day and age.
Clever!
Posted on 7/3/18 at 8:09 am to terriblegreen
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I'm a hunter. I just don't get why you'd kill something you aren't going to eat. And, you know after Cecil the lion, people are going to come after you hard. I just don't see how it's worth it.
She got 2000 pounds of meat from that animal. So yeah, she is gonna eat some. The village that supports those hunts is gonna eat a lot. Nothing goes to waste out there and all that money she spent will go to making sure there are a lot more giraffe for rich foreigners to come hunt.
No rich foreigners coming to hunt these animals, the people there wouldn't give a shite and kill them off.
This post was edited on 7/3/18 at 8:11 am
Posted on 7/3/18 at 8:10 am to GetCocky11
The giraffe was “black” because it is old. They start to turn this color over time. There’s nothing rare about it. This giraffe was old, unable to breed, and making it difficult for the two younger male giraffes to breed and thrive.
The woman paid thousands of dollars to be able to shoot the animal on the reserve (which would have died from a predator or old age soon anyway). The meat and those thousands of dollars go to the villagers and conservation.
I’m not advocating for the hunting or killing of giraffes or trophy hunting in general. I despise trophy hunting (especially exotics). But to act like this woman went to Africa and shot a healthy giraffe in the wild is 100% wrong.
The woman paid thousands of dollars to be able to shoot the animal on the reserve (which would have died from a predator or old age soon anyway). The meat and those thousands of dollars go to the villagers and conservation.
I’m not advocating for the hunting or killing of giraffes or trophy hunting in general. I despise trophy hunting (especially exotics). But to act like this woman went to Africa and shot a healthy giraffe in the wild is 100% wrong.
Posted on 7/3/18 at 8:11 am to Dam Guide
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She got 2000 pounds of meat from that animal. So yeah, she is gonna eat some. The village that supports those hunts is gonna eat a lot. Nothing goes to waste out there and all that money she spent will go to making sure there are a lot more giraffe for rich foreigners to come hunt. No rich foreigners coming to hunt these animals, the people there wouldn't give a shite and kill them off.
Stop bringing facts into this thread.
Posted on 7/3/18 at 8:13 am to Centinel
Posted on 7/3/18 at 8:13 am to Haydo
And it happened a year ago too.
Posted on 7/3/18 at 8:13 am to Dam Guide
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She got 2000 pounds of meat from that animal. So yeah, she is gonna eat some. The village that supports those hunts is gonna eat a lot. Nothing goes to waste out there and all that money she spent will go to making sure there are a lot more giraffe for rich foreigners to come hunt.
But I don't give a shite about how much this helped the people there!!! I am going to be outraged here in my comfortable first world life because REEEEEEEEEEEEE!!
ETA: And next month I plan on sharing heart-tugging pictures of poor South Africans on Facetagram while simultaneously ranting about why we don't do more to help the poor children, while not actually doing anything to help them myself.
This post was edited on 7/3/18 at 8:16 am
Posted on 7/3/18 at 8:18 am to Centinel
That giraffe and most elephants shot would be killed by game managers if not by hunters. As said, a large portion of these exotic African animals that are hunted are past breeding age and nuisance animals.
So it was never a question of should this animal be removed, the question was should we pay a game manager to kill or or should we have a hunter pay a stupid amount to shoot it.
So it was never a question of should this animal be removed, the question was should we pay a game manager to kill or or should we have a hunter pay a stupid amount to shoot it.
Posted on 7/3/18 at 8:22 am to GetCocky11
Sigh...why kill a giraffe? Is there really that much sport in killing one?
Posted on 7/3/18 at 8:22 am to bamafan1001
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Sigh...why kill a giraffe? Is there really that much sport in killing one?
Read the articles.
Posted on 7/3/18 at 8:23 am to bamafan1001
quote:You don't like to read do you?
Sigh...why kill a giraffe? Is there really that much sport in killing one?
This was covered and answered in the article and the 6+ pages of this thread. But you don't want to know the truth anyway, do you?
Posted on 7/3/18 at 8:23 am to TH03
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Giraffes are on the endangered list because of hunting and this chick’s response was that the hunt was a conservation effort.
Really? What list? The IUCN has them as vulnerable, and the ESA doesn't list the giraffe at all. In fact, there was an effort last year to get it listed through the ESA.
While I don't care for the African hunts as it is something I would never do, if it is truly for conservation benefit, I have no problem with it. I have my concerns with the information that is available on these populations of African species though. They don't have the wildlife biologists that we do, nor do they have the same value system that we do. Add to that the reverence people have African species because of movies like The Lion King, and it's just not a good situation to put yourself in by bragging about it on Facebook.
However, these same people would take issue with someone killing a deer in the US, so I take all of this negative publicity with a grain of salt. These people don't like hunting...PERIOD. Doesn't matter if it's a giraffe or a squirrel.
Posted on 7/3/18 at 8:24 am to TH03
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Giraffes are on the endangered list because of hunting and this chick’s response was that the hunt was a conservation effort
I read that this particular Giraffe was killing younger males of it's kind and hurting the species. They needed this particular giraffe killed for this reason. Could be wrong but seemed to make sense to me why it would be for conservation.
Posted on 7/3/18 at 8:25 am to GetCocky11
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The pictures emerged after they were posted on Twitter by the South Africa-based AfricLand Post website
I guess they weren't able to pay the bills anymore
Anything for clicks though
This post was edited on 7/3/18 at 8:29 am
Posted on 7/3/18 at 8:25 am to GetCocky11
I wouldn't shoot a giraffe but there are a lot worse things happening to be outraged about like killing babies every single day.
Posted on 7/3/18 at 8:28 am to GetCocky11
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black giraffe she is reported to have just killed
What police dept. does she work for?
Posted on 7/3/18 at 8:32 am to Cowboyfan89
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The IUCN has them as vulnerable
This is what I meant.
I was just laughing at the juxtaposition in the article.
Posted on 7/3/18 at 8:33 am to oreeg
Giraffe abortion is legal up to 15 months. Where’s the outrage?
Posted on 7/3/18 at 8:34 am to TH03
shite like this brings out the tribe mentality big time. It blows my mind.
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