Please note that there are no petitions to sign or letters to send. This hunt will go on. The only thing you can do to protest this atrocity is to go vegan: be a friend to all animals and refuse to use them in any manner. If everyone were vegan, hunting would be a relic.
SourceDallas News
A permit to hunt an endangered African black rhino has sold for $350,000 at a closely watched auction that’s been criticized by wildlife and animal rights groups.
The Dallas Safari Club and the African nation of Namibia auctioned the permit Saturday to raise money for efforts to protect the black rhino.
Safari Club spokesman Steve Wagner confirmed the sale of the permit at the closed-door event. He declined to name the buyer.
The auction has drawn howls from critics, including wildlife and animal rights groups, and the FBI last week said it…
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Exposing the Big Game 
While we should all eat a plant-based diet, “going vegan” is not the end all to what is facing this planet. We should all be challenging and fighting against the entrenched hunting industry, which continues because the majority of people (who do not hunt) simply do not do anything to challenge this. I do not use the term “vegan” anymore, as a health care worker, I find the term “plant-based” to be much more factual and interesting for discussion with people. Many people are turned off with the religious tone that often surrounds “veganism.” All these “isms” are trendy, and become just another man-made religion. I have found that those who wear “veganism” like a badge, often are not aware of the other environmental problems facing us, such as human over-population, never-ending human growth/development, and destruction of nature, animal experimentation, to name a few. Many thoughtless, superficial people adopt “veganism” for a few years, or they are against fur, for awhile, like some former PETA models. Then, they go on to other new, trendy things.
Rosemary, I completely agree. I used to follow a about a dozen vegan bloggers until I realized, all they want to do is cook vegan food, preach the gospel of a vegan diet, recline back into their rose colored glasses world all the while ignoring the plight of animals and the planet. When I ask them about it, they all say the same thing, “Oooooh, I don’t like to think about animal exploitation, etc…. It makes me sad.”
Seems to me, the responsibility of being a vegan is caring about animal and speaking up for them and the planetj — it isn’t just about cooking, juicing and *green smoothies*.
Then again, like you said, the attitude can be taken to extremes. I recently ended a friendship with a fellow vegan because he berated me for using natural remedies to rid my home of ants as well as killing a huge spider on my bedroom ceiling. He said removing ants and killing the spider wasn’t in line with the vegan philosophy. What can I say, I don’t like ants in my house and I have an irrational fear of spiders. Ok?! Sheesh. Does this make me a “bad” vegan?