A Sickingly Proud Hunter by http://www.cascwild.org
I’ve seen today across the internet
The slaughter of the innocent, the ones we forget
The needless deaths of countless lives
With guns or traps or even knives
But this is not about human life
As they have a choice whether to survive
No, this is about the creatures of the wild
That have the innocence of a human child
Wolves are slaughtered to keep numbers down
But this argument is met with a frown
For keeping them around will do much good
Keeping the environment as it should
The slaughter of baby seals is needless and cruel
Ordered and killed by bureaucratic fools
They batter them to death with clubs
Their cries ring out, the snow runs with blood
Rhino’s are hunted for their horn
Seeing them killed leaves my heart torn
Ivory a trade that should be stopped
From medicine to art that sells in the shops
Whale Hunt courtesy of http://www.userinter.net
Whales and dolphins are hunted to extremes
It makes me sick the blood that runs in our seas
Again for medicine amongst other things
What good this does, I know not what it brings?
We simply have to stop these cruel barbaric kills
Done for money and cheap unnecessary thrills
The human animal is out of control
Complete obliteration of animals is its goal
Eric Alagan
Mar 25, 2013
These people are worse than barbarians. So sad.
Darren Greenidge
Mar 25, 2013
Yeah I know. It sickens me when 99% of it is unnecessary in our modern world. I was watching something earlier where a wildlife safari park here in UK, Longleat, has a breed of lion; the Barbary Lion, that is extinct in the wild and fear of releasing back to their natural habitat would endanger them to total extinction because the locals hunt them, probably for medicines in China and other places. It always gets me when you see men clubbing baby seals to death, the blood spilling and staining the snow. Disgusts me how cruel we can be.
shrinksarentcheap
Mar 25, 2013
Agree entirely, repulsive massacres.
Darren Greenidge
Mar 26, 2013
Pointless and disgusting. I have no idea why governments don’t step in and put a stop to it but it is obviously money I expect, the root of our planet’s problems.
Gordon Freeman
Mar 25, 2013
If you’re not already aware of it and/or have seen it (and if your heart can stand it) look up the eco-film “The Cove” — http://www.thecovemovie.com/
It is a truthful portrayal of the barbaric and totally pointless slaughter of dolphins in Japan, for meat. The meat is not needed and goes way beyond simply being “surplus to requirements” as it is actually laden with heavy metals like Mercury. The Japanese government not only endorses this ‘hunt’ (by continuing to pay these “Fishermen” for their haul) but, because it then has all of this meat that it cannot easily sell as it is unwanted, they actually pass it off as the much sought after Tuna meat! And when this is insufficient to use up the abundant over-supply of this dangerously toxic and poisonous meat they even have the idea (I can’t remember if the scheme was actually put in to place or not) to use it for children’s school dinners!
The “average” Japanese citizen is not even aware of these activities by their Govenrment, and all of this even after Japans previous disaster with Mercury poisoning through chemical pollution back in the 1950’s called “Minamata Disease” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamata_disease).
Sic!
Darren Greenidge
Mar 26, 2013
I’ve see the Cove Gordon and it’s shocking and disgusting. Don’t even get me started on China as well with all their superstitions in medicine. I’ll have to watch it again as saw it a long while ago. I follow the Cove group on Facebook as well as a lot of other conservation groups. My favourite animals are Wolves but love many others including seals, dolphins, whales and so on. I recommend Howling for Justice on wordpress who tells a lot about wolves and other animals; mainly wolves though and the fight against ignorance and fear of those beautiful animals.
Thanks for the links also, I’ll look the Minamata Disease up. I may add some links of my own as well. What gets me is the fact that we call ourselves civilised yet we wipe out many species a year, mostly without reason or just because we can. I despair for our species sometimes and what we’re capable of.