I'm so mad I could weep!
Did you know there was such a thing as a Lion farm? I didn't, but today my eyes were prised wide open. What I read sickened me beyond what I can describe here. I've posted the link below so anyone can read it....and weep.
I think you could pretty much describe me as anti-hunting but I do tend to understand, though absolutely disagree, with the countryside brigade. What I do not understand is the mentality of those men that actually breed or catch lions so that very rich people can come and 'pretend' to hunt them. Let's not think that this is hunting. This is pretend. The lions are drugged, intensively farmed, in poor condition and bred for hunting. The hunter is not a big man. He is a little mindless fool who has no regard for the fact that lions are an endangered species. Keep hunting like that and the wild lions will eventually die out. Keep intensively breeding them, and inbreeding them, and you will only birth defective, ill animals. To get satisfaction from pretending to capture and kill these animals is only deceiving the person doing it.
The people perpetuating this farming business are the ones that need to be caught and shamed. Shamed, and their names and details made public so there is nowhere to hide. They need to be vilified, and made so uncomfortable that they will have to stop. Those that pay for this so called sport should also be named and shamed and vilified. Indeed the article manages to do exactly that for some of those involved.
It's not just the hunting. These farms also slaughter the lions so their bones can be shipped to countries such as China and the South East Asia where they are considered 'medicine'. Balderdash and piffle, to use polite swear words. Does anyone really think that consuming the crushed bones of an animal such as a lion will heal you, or make you stronger? Anyone who does is deluded and ill educated, and we need to do something about this now. If we don't the next generation may find themselves looking at pictures of wild lions rather than the real thing.
So what needs to happen? A couple of things. When you go abroad and you pay someone to sit and pet that wild animal, be it a lion or otherwise, that animal will have been intensively bred for exactly that purpose. The animal will be drugged. If it wasn't do you really think you would be able to get near it? The animal would be scared, let alone the fact if it was a wild lion you would end up as it's lunch. If it's a lion brought up with humans you are not encouraging it's natural life habitat, even if it's to live on a conservation range. By paying for taking pictures, petting, playing or 'walking' with lions, cubs, or any other wild animal, you are complaisant in the trade. So stop it. Boycott it. Take pictures of the animal 'owner' instead and harass that government to ban the trade. Put pictures of the animal 'owner' on the internet. Make it go viral. Shame them, and the people that pay. Make it really, really, uncomfortable to do. Boycott South Africa. Completely. Not just for tourism. It is the only country that allows the export of lion bones. The laws protecting tiger bones mean that these men have turned to using lions. It is the only country that allows large scale lion breeding.
Oh yes, and while we are at it let's harass our very own government. The UK government have restrictions for the importation of animal skins. To my shame I have realised, today, that there is a loophole in the law allowing the import of hunting trophies of captive animals, including lions. That loophole needs to be slammed shut right now. Today there are about 20,000 wild lions left in the world. It sounds a lot, and yet respected conservationists suggest that these animals could become extinct within 30 years. That's in our children and grandchildren's lifetime. Imagine that. Imagine we don't do anything now. Imagine no wild lions. That's no wild lions at all! None. Boycott and shame. That's all you need to do. Boycott, shame and spread the news.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6966289/Year-long-investigation-reveals-sickening-lion-trade-ends-dramatic-rescue.html
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