Every day we can make a choice to save animals who want to live just as much as Cecil did. https://www.facebook.com/veganoutreach
“…most the friends ive seen talking about cecil are meat eaters and it feels crazy that one animal being killed is outrageous because its “majestic”, “pretty” and “exotic” and yet another animals being killed in the thousands daily is totally fine” Emma Smithies
Exposing the Big Game 
Sigh. This is another of those arguments that isn’t anywhere near the truth. I don’t think this person really gets it. People are outraged because lions and other of the top predators are going extinct for something as meaningless as hunting trophies to prop up the human, er, ego. It’s not because the lion is ‘exotic’ and ‘majestic’, although that he is. She makes the assumption that 1. everyone is a meat eater and the same, does she have facts on that, and 2. That they all think it is just fine. We don’t.
I’ll bet many of the people outraged don’t eat meat, in fact at least one protester was quoted as being a vegetarian – but even if they do, it doesn’t mean they can’t start somewhere in their awareness of animal suffering. Killing for food may be one thing, but killing for fur (did I see a photo in the news of Kim Kardashian’s Kid dolled up in a fur coat already?) or a trophy on the wall is something else again. You can’t let all animals suffer because we can’t save them all equally – as yet. Advances are being made daily for the betterment of animals humans kill for food.
If we don’t stop breeding so much, more and more animals are going to be sacrificed to the human eating machine. That’s probably the biggest thing anyone can do to save animals raised for food, and all animals’ habitats.
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I am one of the beyond saddened who is vegan.
I wish everyone was.
However that doesn’t stop me from being grateful for all the attention being brought to light regarding hunting/trophy hunting/animal torture/poaching et al because of precious Cecil’s unconscionable torture and needless death by a human serial killer.
Animals are my heart, and I find it difficult to even watch a commercial about milk these days because I know the truth of how horrific and cruel the dairy industry is.
I will continue to share information and do the least harm I can because that is what being a vegan is.
I can only hope others may understand that “all souls weigh the same:” that speciesism is a man-made excuse machine for our need to feel superior to justify the consumption of non-human animal flesh and secretions and that the murder of animals with a gun/bow+arrow et al is NOT a “sport.” The word sport means an even playing field. Not so with humans hunting animals.
And this sociopath dentist actually used the word “loves” when speaking of how he feels about killing animals.
Anyone who’s “wired” like that doesn’t belong interacting with living things, IMO.
Yes, I am dismayed that a lot of the news stories are trying to defend what he did as ‘hunting that may (operative word is may, not will) help conservation. What this man did was illegal poaching, not managed hunting. And his apology sounds more like a defense than a sincere apology. Activity I love and practice responsibly my butt – in WI he didn’t practice his compulsion responsibly either, and I read something his about not following fishing laws. Apparently laws do not apply to men like him?
I agree with all. I also wish everyone were vegan. But I’m also grateful when people are fighting any animal abuse! If someone isn’t vegan but buys products that aren’t testing on animals–that is good. If people are against fur and circuses are are promoting spay and neuter, then some animals will benefit. I’m delighted to see so many people responding to Cecil’s death. Maybe they will pay more attention to all kinds of hunting in a way they never did before. The knew awakening may benefit other lions, as well as elephants, rhinos, and wolves. We should be happy for any steps people take in the right direction. I cringe when I see some of the criticism against those who are trying but are not quite “pure” enough.
By the way, would anyone else like to see a discussion on the intersectionality movement? some animal “advocates” are really into that, but I’m wondering if it is doing as much harm as good. Some of the kinds of criticism we just mentioned seems to come from them.