Gryph.

I personally think that shooting a tame animal in a small pen AND CALLING IT HUNTING is only slightly more moral than paying for sex, or hanging around bars at closing time, trying to pick up drunk chicks, and then bragging about what a stud you are.

I reckon those activities stink, too, but I'd hesitate in calling for a ban on bar-crawling just because I don't like it.

It's not hunting.... but remove the bragging, and it's no different from scruffing a fat wether and cutting its throat for rations.

As for "policing our own"... The farmers aren't "us". We can only police hunters.
What do we really think will happen to the current stock of lions? Do we think that they'll be fed for no return? Or released into the wild without causing massive problems?

It's not a nice situation, but simplistic solutions generally result in unintended consequences. One of which will be the Greenie claim that even we hunters have admitted that lion-hunting is unacceptable. They don't care about nuances. Only sound-bites.