A lion, an orca, two very different fates
I found this story truly infuriating. http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/27/africa/... I really hope they don’t get off with a slap on the wrist, but I suspect that will be the case.
Since that story shows people at their worst, here is a much more heartening example of people at their best. We need reminders of that, given the current state of the world.
http://fox13now.com/2015/07/24/volunt...
Since that story shows people at their worst, here is a much more heartening example of people at their best. We need reminders of that, given the current state of the world.
http://fox13now.com/2015/07/24/volunt...
date
newest »
newest »
message 1:
by
Morena
(new)
Jul 28, 2015 01:36AM
One day maybe in 200 years or more, people will look back at this century, see how animals were treated by majority of humans, and will label us as sadists or degenerates because we understand the ecology, the importance of all insects and animals, we know that animals were not created by God for our pleasure and still we mistreat them, use them and torture them. Thank you for adding the good story.
reply
|
flag
There is a special place in hell for people like this.
We are making progress, though, however slowly, Adriana. There was a time, not so long ago, when the shooting of this lion would have seemed perfectly natural to most people, when the concept of animals having "rights" would have seemed laughable. We no longer kill greyhounds when their racing days are done and rescue groups have sprung up to save thoroughbreds. But there is still a long way to go.
I am a born pessimist...so maybe it is not a majority of people. In my experience most of the people cannot be bothered. They like their dog or cat and that seems good enough. There are few great beings and I am fortunate to have some of them as friends who do a lot for wild life, who have given up meat (knowing the horrors perpetrated by agribusiness) I don't mind if people hunt when they themselves are hunted and die frequently. It seems natural like it was in prehistoric societies while today, it is only a nasty perversion.
Sharon wrote: "We are making progress, though, however slowly, Adriana. There was a time, not so long ago, when the shooting of this lion would have seemed perfectly natural to most people, when the concept of a..."I do think that awareness of animals as something to protect/nurture has been growing for a long time. My kids have certainly learned more about the environmental crisis (and the animals involved) than I ever did in school.
But in the case of endangered animals, I'm afraid that it might not be growing quickly enough- now I'm hearing things like 10-20 years (if we're lucky) before elephants and rhinos are extinct in the wild, and that's not hard to believe. We're decimating forests before we even know what's in them, and we're not doing anything good to the species that live in the waters of the world. I do think that there has been a sea change in how a lot of people look at trophy hunters, and that's not a bad thing at all, in my books.
Sharon Kay Penman's Blog
- Sharon Kay Penman's profile
- 4037 followers
Sharon Kay Penman isn't a Goodreads Author
(yet),
but they
do have a blog,
so here are some recent posts imported from
their feed.
