Celebrities Tweet In Anger Against Dentist Walter Palmer
Walter Palmer, a dentist from Minnesota, paid £35,000 to shoot and kill the much-loved lion, Cecil, with a bow and arrow. Cecil, the 13-yr old lion, was lured out of the national park and shot.
That poor thing had an arrow in his body for 40 hours until he shot him with a rifle, skinned him, and then beheaded him as a trophy.
Celebrities are pissed! #CecilTheLion is trending worldwide on twitter
His excuse for saying he didn't know it was known, like does it make it any better if he had killed a different one? He was doing it for fun, disgusting.
But who are we to judge? We kill like more than 150 billion innocent animals yearly and nobody seems to care. Anyway, i'm really feeling sorry for the poor lion.
But who are we to judge? We kill like more than 150 billion innocent animals yearly and nobody seems to care. Anyway, i'm really feeling sorry for the poor lion.
This is very true and you make a great point!!! The animals we eat everyday went through far worse pain, misery, and torture in factory farms than those that are shot by hunters! We need to rile up against the factory farms too.
I'm vegan for ethical reasons such as this.
But who are we to judge? We kill like more than 150 billion innocent animals yearly and nobody seems to care. Anyway, i'm really feeling sorry for the poor lion.
Killing for food and killing for sports are 2 different things. I hope you're able to make that distinction.
People who kill animals for fun and approve of such actions are often sociopaths and are being monitored after they're released (if they get caught in the first place).
Killing for food and killing for sports are 2 different things. I hope you're able to make that distinction.
People who kill animals for fun and approve of such actions are often sociopaths and are being monitored after they're released (if they get caught in the first place).
Trophy hunting has a long history of existence. Nobody seemed to care about it before. Suddenly they kill a famous lion and everyone becomes a social justice warrior. The number of 150 billion certainly includes killing animals for food which we honestly don't need but that's another topic, so i'll save that for another thread.