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Certainly not my cup of tea but I really don't care that it is done this way.
What I do care about is the way this practice is used as a tool by anti-hunters.
The way I see it, as I have said before, is that lions shoud be bred as a form of livestock.
Certainly, this practice is, at its core, no different than shooting deer over a feeder, pigs over a pile of apples, a bear over bait or a farm raised pheasant released on a shooting ground.
The difference is that a lion evokes a much stronger emotional reaction and is held up as a higher form of life than other animals...wrongly of course.
Obviously, this film was not made to infuence people toward a ban on canned hunting, but to move them toward a ban on ALL hunting.
The man whom says a live lion is worth more to a land owner / hunt operator alive than dead is a fool. Just how many tourists will travel hundreds of miles in SA just to pet or walk with some lion cubs when they can do that near any major city in SA already? BTW, for those who did not finish the video, he was walking through a pasture on a cleared road with three WHITE lion cubs claiming that this is an educational exercise and is observing them as they would be in the wild...what horseshit!
Lions just happen to be worth more dead than alive right now, just like any animal we enjoy eating...

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