In the title of an October 2ndpost to his blog column in Psychology Today, University of Colorado evolutionary biology professor Marc Bekoff, PhD, asked, “Do Some People Simply Like to Kill Other Animals?”
The answer seems to me a foregone conclusion.
Bekoff writes, “Many know that Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, made a pledge in May 2011 only to eat meat he hunted so that he could be ‘thankful for the food I have to eat.’ Of course, it’s not obvious that he has to eat other animals… Surely, in the arena of who, not what, winds up in our mouth, Mr. Zuckerberg and others are not my moral compass. It’s always good to remember that a significant percentage of the food we eat was once sentient beings who cared deeply about what happened to them and to their friends and family. They should be referred to…
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Exposing the Big Game 
I think for Zuckerberg it is just a fad. But that Jesperson character, glad he is in prison and I hope he meets prison justice one day. The really heinous characters often do. He is truly what is called a bad seed.
The deer torturers and prairie dog killers described above are a bunch of degenerate bullies that never should have seen the light of day. That kind of savagery indulged in for “fun” makes me wish for the unmentionable—a prenatal test that could predict such tendencies and would allow them to be removed from the gene pool! Vigilante snipers would be another possibility. It’s hard to at least not wish for drastic retribution!
Of course no matter how bad, there are those who will hide behind speciesism and maintain that while the hunters’ behavior is bad, they are, after all, human beings and the animals are just, well, animals. Or they are glad that the misfits are out in the wild massacring animals instead of harming people. But no civilized society should allow animals to be sacrificed to satisfy some psychotics’ sadistic compulsions in order to save humans.
It’s too bad the behavior of the misfits described above can’t be documented and disseminated until even other hunters turn against them to avoid being tarred with the same brush. And until the churches and the clergy, those grand arbiters of morality, are forced to either condemn the torturers or resort to the old anthropocentric excuses that would condemn themselves.
I agree about Zuckerberg and others in the various food fads. They want to have their meat and eat it too. There is just no good way around the killing. Humanely raised, self-slaughtered, locavore–nice try, folks, but it doesn’t work.
So true.