I have read this topic with interest and can certainly see both sides of the argument. I have some questions. If there is a no feeding regulation this is going to limit commercial lion hunting to extremely large outfits that can afford to have lions running about munching on valuable livestock for two years. Won't that drive the cost of a canned lion hunt into the stratosphere? So for all practical purposes, all lion hunting on private land in South Africa has been outlawed? Or am I missing something? Can these captive bred lions fend for themselves? Or are they dumped in separate fenced off areas where they can munch on an inexpensive goat herd (why would I want them eating my commercially valuable wild livestock if I was a grower?). If this is the case, what is the difference? If these lions are allowed to live on goats and scrap livestock (canner milk cows and such just turned out for the lions to attack) for a couple of years in private acres without being disturbed, how would that be any different than what was done before? Won't these lions still be very vulnerable with no naturally developed fear of man? Won't it still just be a turkey shoot?