Not only do we kill animals needlessly, we’re slow as fuck at making their very short lives a little more tolerable
I got a great idea, let’s suspend government rights!
Our country is not a nation of animals lovers, we are a nation of *pet* lovers.
In reality the average British citizen fucking *hates* animals and has a desire to see them all suffer for their transitory gain, especially those animals deemed livestock, or they would not participate in paying for their suffering to occur.
If the point of the legislation is to protect the animals in question, a blanket ban on the import and export of trophies is not the way to go about it. Take Africa for example – which is really what this legislation is aimed at – African trophy hunting. The greatest threat to animals there is habitat loss and illegal poaching. Not legal sport hunting. Banning the import and export of trophies only serves to kick the legs out from under neath the hunting industry, which will likly increase habitat loss and illegal poaching.
I fully appreciate that people may be morally opposed to hunting, and if the moral outrage is more important than the conservation benefits of hunting, then that is a separate argument. But if the goal is to conserve these species, then a blanket ban on legal obtained trophies will not achieve this.
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Not only do we kill animals needlessly, we’re slow as fuck at making their very short lives a little more tolerable
I got a great idea, let’s suspend government rights!
Our country is not a nation of animals lovers, we are a nation of *pet* lovers.
In reality the average British citizen fucking *hates* animals and has a desire to see them all suffer for their transitory gain, especially those animals deemed livestock, or they would not participate in paying for their suffering to occur.
It was always hot air anyway
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/03/law-change-allows-wild-birds-killed-protect-game-birds-england
If the point of the legislation is to protect the animals in question, a blanket ban on the import and export of trophies is not the way to go about it. Take Africa for example – which is really what this legislation is aimed at – African trophy hunting. The greatest threat to animals there is habitat loss and illegal poaching. Not legal sport hunting. Banning the import and export of trophies only serves to kick the legs out from under neath the hunting industry, which will likly increase habitat loss and illegal poaching.
I fully appreciate that people may be morally opposed to hunting, and if the moral outrage is more important than the conservation benefits of hunting, then that is a separate argument. But if the goal is to conserve these species, then a blanket ban on legal obtained trophies will not achieve this.