sad BUT? His death was part of his action. You go a hunting and you can be the prey. No problem with hunting for food and to manage the herd. Trophy hunting is for what kind of thinking? Did he ever think this could happen? I always sided with the bulls in the arenas! Animal care is a GODLY virtue whether in husbandry/ranching or on legitimate hunts. Respect HIS creation and commands
It is sad for his family, but he put himself in danger. Our Creator made all life...and I personally could never kill an animal, even in order to eat. I am not anti-guns for self-protection, but have never owned one. My protection: trusting in the One who made all life for 91 years.
Could you mercy-kill a wounded animal, looking it in the eyes?
Life presents us with moments that require thoughtful action.
I did kill an injured young buck that way on Thanksgivinf 1979 (I think), after the neighbor (city guy who bought half my grandfather's ranch) asked us to take care of the young buck that had caught and dislocated his right hip at the joint.
He tried to scramble with his front legs, but that hip was useless and he could not get up. I brought him a bowl of water and he let me pet him, looking me in the eyes.
When I returned after lunch with a small handgun of my Dad's, he saw me, and turned his head away from me when I got about 20 feet from him, and he held still for me to shoot him at the base of his brain.
The neighbor, Morgan C., drove up while I was field-dressing the carcass. I was surprised that he bitterly mocked me, "Behold the mighty hunter".
Later, at supper, I had marinated some backstrap and grilled it.
Even though I had not eaten mammals for years, based upon my experience raising a calf for Ag. class in 9th grade (miserable calf), I went through the entire process of eating that young deer's flesh.
I saw his brown eyes looking into mine with each bite...
It would have been a sin to waste that good meat.
I know the whole of that process since then.
I don't eat any critters since early 2001.
It was physically difficult to give up birds and fish.
I have never killed an animal and don’t think I could however I do eat some meat. It is sad to think that any animal has to die but I do feel we need protein in our diet. As a nurse what amazes me is people that can have an abortion and kill a baby. I worked in Labor and Delivery and saw babies born at 20 weeks or more. They are human beings but many are aborted after 20 weeks. That is heartbreaking.
i don't own a gun...and I hope that I would never be in that situation, because I don't like to see an animal or human suffer. You alleviated the suffering of an animal, which would not exist anyway. What you did was an act of mercy. However, I can't bear to even see someone get hurt. It really affects me.
Deborah as a child I went years with hardly anything during the Great Depression. I was born in 1934. There was no food. I really don't remember being hungry. One gets to a certain point...and doesn't even think about food. In my life I have done quite a bit of fasting...and the longest was 40 days. I wasn't hungry...after the third day no craving for food. It is very strange,, but I don't get hungry very often, even today. Sometimes I get hungry....after I have eaten. Then I want more to eat.
So do only eat vegetables? I think God created some animals for us to eat. You might not be the one that killed it but someone did for you. I don’t know if he was trophy hunting or what but I think you should be more tactful in what you say. Killing animals for food goes back thousands of years obviously. We need protein and it is a great source. Of course you go along with Gates and have synthetic meat. There is no telling what kind of chemicals would be in it. The animals and vegetables are already being affected by the seeding.
For fifty years I lived on fruit and vegetables...and did great. However, I did not eat processed food...I shopped in the produce section; and ate an abundance of fruit and vegetables. in 1980, I met a 50 year old man who had been eating nothing, but fruit and vegetables, since he was 16. He was entering physique contests and beating out 20 - 30 year olds. My children asked to see his driver's license...he looked no older than 30. He had a full head of hair; no gray; no glasses and a 28 inch waist. He didn't have an ounce of flab on his body. He had followed Dr. Norman W. Walkers information from the start. Dr. Walker wrote ten books on nutrition and health.. This 50 year old was in excellent health. I kept in touch with him, over the years. The last time i spoke to him, he was biking around San Pedro, California several years ago at 91. His neighbor let me know that he moved to Tahiti, about 2 years ago. The Hunzacuts of North Eastern Pakistan high in the Himalayas..lived 120 healthy years, primarily on fruit and vegetables. They would eat llama or goat meat only occasionally. There is little land in Hunza for raising animals. I got into the study of health and nutrition in 1961...and the traditional information was so bad that i was sick much of the time. Then in 1973, at 38, I became a vegetarian...and got into the best shape in my life by the time I was 47. I even did a marathon in 1981 and ran 4 hours and 23 minutes non-stop. Not all vegetarian info is right. Many vegetarians eat a lot of processed foods.
I ran my one marathon in 1980, in July, in Texas, hitting "the wall" at 18 miles, and rehydrating as I jogged and picked my pace back up. 3hr, 39 minutes and 46 seconds... I had been shooting for 3.5 hr. After that I could not get past chronic stress injuries from my left leg being 5/8" shorter, so I was limited to half marathons, and now I just ride a fixed-gear bike.
I'm training for a 100 mile ride on August 31, with some old friends.
No stress injuries on a bike, and a fixed-gear bike is closer to running, like a prosthesis that makes me a bike-centaur.
There is plenty of proof that He exists in the most popular book in the world, the Bible. You should read it and find out about God and how He gave His only son to die on a cross for our sins. You can also find out about the time that we are living In now -referred to as the end times. God does not want anyone to die without accepting Him as your Savior, so you can spend eternity with Him.
Did you ever do any research to find out about the people who wrote the Bible? I have been a reader for over 80 years...and have done extensive reading. At 4 years of age, my grandmother taught me God is Love....and that was enough for me. All my life I have felt the presence and have seen miracles, when I prayed. However, I was sent a copy of the King James Bible in 1984...and I have been reading it for 41 years, but always asked for the Creator's guidance, before I read. Religious leaders interpret it for their followers...and people accept without question their interpretation. I always ask for guidance...and it comes. My brother is a Born Again and says every word in the Bible is divine...but if people really did any research they would find the Bible is far from 100% valid. However, people don't want to think for themselves. God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible by Adam Nicolson wrote about the 50 nobles and members of the clergy who worked on the KJB for 8 years (1603-1511). The original which came off the printing press was 1286 pages. King James men added 500 pages more pages; and they were not spiritual men. They were literate and able to write. The Gutenberg Bible was the first book to come off the printing press in the 1450s. It stemmed from information coming from the Roman Catholic Church. Other people after that time wrote their translations of the Gutenberg Bible; and the Geneva Bible was prominent, before the King James Bible. However, all Bibles rely on information that stemmed back to the promotion of Christianity by the Roman Emperor Constantine in 325 AD at the Council of Nicea. The Greeks went along with Constantine at that time. This is how the Bible really got off the ground. it took money!.
I was fortunate to go to a Christian school and my parents raised me up in a Christian home where going to church was a vital part of our lives. I don’t proclaim to know everything but I know that the Bible was inspired by God. He used men that were not perfect by any means to write it. He is my Savior because I chose to become a Christian. I am thankful for the many blessings He has given me and look forward to His return.
Sorry he’s lost his life but he was there hunting and IT’S ABOUT TIME THE ANIMALS GOT THEIR OWN BACK! I don’t have much if any, sympathy for him. I don’t know what people’s obsession is with hunting animals for pleasure. It’s sick.
There isn't enough space available any longer for animals to allow nature to regulate their numbers. Buffalos consume huge amounts of grass and basically have the lion as their sole enemy. In a modern setting on a hunting farm their numbers are controlled by the owner deciding on a number of animals that can be made available for hunting for that season. The current cost to hunt a buffalo bull is $10 000. I don't hunt personally but, in nature, every buffalo dies at some point, and it is always a much more violent death than death by projectile. Because their skin is so tough and they are so strong, it takes a pack of lions to climb onto the animal to take it down. The flesh is torn out while one or two lions suffocate the buffalo. It is a horrible death that my wife and I can't watch. Respect though, for your love and caring.
In the mid-fifties, my father was charged by a Cape buffalo and survived because an African dropped it with a rifle shot before it reached him. Thus at the age of nine, I learned that the Cape buffalo is the most dangerous animal in Africa.
Wow. Am so sorry. In our modern world it is often hard to remember that we are all actually wild animals and the Cape Buffalo is a lot bigger and faster than we are. I am sure your friend knew this since he was a hunter, but the hunted won this time. I'm so sorry and may he rest in peace and my condolences to the family.
I am a Physician and a Plant Based Nutrition Consultant. I do not eat mammals,;therefor, I do not need to kill or have others kill them for me to eat. It is not a sport to kill these gifts of nature (Baruch Hashem ["Blessed is the name." in Hebrew]).
Actually many mammals are killed during the production of plant foods for human consumption, ask any farmer. Also all plants have "feelings" see the book The Secret Life of Plants. Unfortunately this world exists with killing and cruelty to survive. The local villages use the killed animal for substance.
Then you ought to be more than aware, as a student of the Human body, that God gave us canine teeth to rip meat and not carrot sticks. You should also know that God told man to eat animal meat after the flood, but the blood must be removed. In other words, it should be killed and not eaten alive. Hunting jeeps these animal from over populating and starving during cold and harsh seasons.
God gave approval to eat meats as described in His word. Even as a nutrition counselor you know the nutrients in cattle for humans. Of course we eat far too much meat but not all meat was nor is off limits. Meat eating animals and humans hunting for food doesn't harm the species and may help overpopulation that may be dangerous for humans, other species and the environment. It's hunting, poaching and western meat practices that can be a pronlem.
Dee, Thank you for your thoughtful message. When Ha Shem granted Noach permission to eat meat, Hashem did not say that it was preferable- just permitted. Hashem initially gave man plant foods to eat exclusively at the time of creation (Genesis1:29-30. It is unnecessary to eat animal flesh to be healthy, strong, and free of chronic diseases. I am 77 years of age and do not require any medicines. Dr John
As an avid reader of John Leake's writing, I have realized he might be a real-life Most Interesting Man in the World. As in "sharks have a week dedicated to him"... maybe he drinks Dos Equis too!
He went to kill a sentient being for fun/enjoyment, and he ended up being the hunted. I'm having trouble feeling sorry for him. I feel sorry for his family.
I am amazed at some of the comments. You would think we have a bunch of vegetarians. Of course we could go synthetic like Gates wants to do. Good luck with life after all the chemicals in it. We need protein and meat is a great source. Someone has to kill it. Would you think they would kill it for the fun of it? I am sure that much meat would last a family a long time.
You give Gates too much credit. The chemical slop he calls "synthetic meat" are for us (bugs and maggots too), while Gates and his fellow psychopaths continue to feast on the finest grass-fed, antibiotic-free meats.
Buffalo's aren't hunted for their meat. The hunter wants a trophy, I.e. the head and horns. The meat goes to a specialised butcher who processes it, so, it's not lost.
May he RIP and hopefully come back being neither a predator or the prey. The usual score for return is that what one is thinking about has a great effect on what the soul will return as. Just saying!
Sorry about your friend John Leake. Very unfortunate way to die. Hunting is indeed dangerous in many ways. I was charged by a full grown bull moose, who closed on me, on the run, while I was stalking him, for sustenance. I fired a 180 grain 30-06 bullet into his heart from 20 yards, he turned slightly, leaned into a 20 foot diameter circle, and dropped dead facing away from me... It was remembered today after reading your article about the charging Cape Buffalo... even a heavy bullet is unlikely to stop a charging creature the size of a Cape Buffalo before it gets you. Hunting these enormous, powerful beasts is a very dangerous undertaking. I do not hunt for sport... my moose was necessary for the family food supply before winter, and I was grateful for it, as was my mother, father, and siblings. Praise God for sparing me. I have prayed to God, in Jesus name , for comfort to Asher's family.
This is a trigger article for me because I could have bet a million dollars that all the animal worshippers were going to come sniveling out of the woodwork. This man was attacked and gored to death by a wild Beast. I don't give a crap if he was going to hang its head on his living room wall and throw darts at it. Anyone who sees this differently is morally corrupt. He was a Human Being created in God's image. Animals have No Such position! They all basically behave in a preprogrammed manner according to their kind, which includes hunting, storing food, hibernation, migrations, and mating. Animals were made for MAN for the following purposes: 1/ To eat 2/ To do labor 3/ To make clothing and items out of 4/ To study for our benefit which includes medical research 5/ To entertain us and serve as companions and guides. Period. You people who look at this any other way are out of line.
Cape Buffalos, Hippos, killer bees, almost every kind of snake, crocs..... what is it about Africa that produces such amazing amounts of aggression? Could almost see a pattern.
I too find hunting generally needless and particularly unpalatable if done for enjoyment. But the loss of a human life is at another, much higher level that cannot be dismissed. Thank you, John, for this well-balanced writing.
"Though many—myself included—perceive the shooting of Cape Buffalo to be a cruel sport, there is no doubt that hunting revenue provides the strongest incentive for preserving their habitat."
So, they are killing them to save them??? Sounds like the excuse used to justify the war in Vietnam and most U.S. wars.
sad BUT? His death was part of his action. You go a hunting and you can be the prey. No problem with hunting for food and to manage the herd. Trophy hunting is for what kind of thinking? Did he ever think this could happen? I always sided with the bulls in the arenas! Animal care is a GODLY virtue whether in husbandry/ranching or on legitimate hunts. Respect HIS creation and commands
It is sad for his family, but he put himself in danger. Our Creator made all life...and I personally could never kill an animal, even in order to eat. I am not anti-guns for self-protection, but have never owned one. My protection: trusting in the One who made all life for 91 years.
Could you mercy-kill a wounded animal, looking it in the eyes?
Life presents us with moments that require thoughtful action.
I did kill an injured young buck that way on Thanksgivinf 1979 (I think), after the neighbor (city guy who bought half my grandfather's ranch) asked us to take care of the young buck that had caught and dislocated his right hip at the joint.
He tried to scramble with his front legs, but that hip was useless and he could not get up. I brought him a bowl of water and he let me pet him, looking me in the eyes.
When I returned after lunch with a small handgun of my Dad's, he saw me, and turned his head away from me when I got about 20 feet from him, and he held still for me to shoot him at the base of his brain.
The neighbor, Morgan C., drove up while I was field-dressing the carcass. I was surprised that he bitterly mocked me, "Behold the mighty hunter".
Later, at supper, I had marinated some backstrap and grilled it.
Even though I had not eaten mammals for years, based upon my experience raising a calf for Ag. class in 9th grade (miserable calf), I went through the entire process of eating that young deer's flesh.
I saw his brown eyes looking into mine with each bite...
It would have been a sin to waste that good meat.
I know the whole of that process since then.
I don't eat any critters since early 2001.
It was physically difficult to give up birds and fish.
I have never killed an animal and don’t think I could however I do eat some meat. It is sad to think that any animal has to die but I do feel we need protein in our diet. As a nurse what amazes me is people that can have an abortion and kill a baby. I worked in Labor and Delivery and saw babies born at 20 weeks or more. They are human beings but many are aborted after 20 weeks. That is heartbreaking.
Murdering a Human baby is Far more egregious and evil than "killing" some animal. We are Not of the same heirarchy, as God has ordained.
i don't own a gun...and I hope that I would never be in that situation, because I don't like to see an animal or human suffer. You alleviated the suffering of an animal, which would not exist anyway. What you did was an act of mercy. However, I can't bear to even see someone get hurt. It really affects me.
Don't say you couldn't kill to eat because I can assure you, you would. You have never been extremely hungry to that point.
Deborah as a child I went years with hardly anything during the Great Depression. I was born in 1934. There was no food. I really don't remember being hungry. One gets to a certain point...and doesn't even think about food. In my life I have done quite a bit of fasting...and the longest was 40 days. I wasn't hungry...after the third day no craving for food. It is very strange,, but I don't get hungry very often, even today. Sometimes I get hungry....after I have eaten. Then I want more to eat.
So do only eat vegetables? I think God created some animals for us to eat. You might not be the one that killed it but someone did for you. I don’t know if he was trophy hunting or what but I think you should be more tactful in what you say. Killing animals for food goes back thousands of years obviously. We need protein and it is a great source. Of course you go along with Gates and have synthetic meat. There is no telling what kind of chemicals would be in it. The animals and vegetables are already being affected by the seeding.
For fifty years I lived on fruit and vegetables...and did great. However, I did not eat processed food...I shopped in the produce section; and ate an abundance of fruit and vegetables. in 1980, I met a 50 year old man who had been eating nothing, but fruit and vegetables, since he was 16. He was entering physique contests and beating out 20 - 30 year olds. My children asked to see his driver's license...he looked no older than 30. He had a full head of hair; no gray; no glasses and a 28 inch waist. He didn't have an ounce of flab on his body. He had followed Dr. Norman W. Walkers information from the start. Dr. Walker wrote ten books on nutrition and health.. This 50 year old was in excellent health. I kept in touch with him, over the years. The last time i spoke to him, he was biking around San Pedro, California several years ago at 91. His neighbor let me know that he moved to Tahiti, about 2 years ago. The Hunzacuts of North Eastern Pakistan high in the Himalayas..lived 120 healthy years, primarily on fruit and vegetables. They would eat llama or goat meat only occasionally. There is little land in Hunza for raising animals. I got into the study of health and nutrition in 1961...and the traditional information was so bad that i was sick much of the time. Then in 1973, at 38, I became a vegetarian...and got into the best shape in my life by the time I was 47. I even did a marathon in 1981 and ran 4 hours and 23 minutes non-stop. Not all vegetarian info is right. Many vegetarians eat a lot of processed foods.
That was a serious marathon time, Barbara.
I ran my one marathon in 1980, in July, in Texas, hitting "the wall" at 18 miles, and rehydrating as I jogged and picked my pace back up. 3hr, 39 minutes and 46 seconds... I had been shooting for 3.5 hr. After that I could not get past chronic stress injuries from my left leg being 5/8" shorter, so I was limited to half marathons, and now I just ride a fixed-gear bike.
I'm training for a 100 mile ride on August 31, with some old friends.
No stress injuries on a bike, and a fixed-gear bike is closer to running, like a prosthesis that makes me a bike-centaur.
You talking about my comment? You might want to read it again and or follow your own words?
"I think God created some animals for us to eat."
Yeah, blame it on God, an entity with no proof that it exists. The trophy hunter was not going to eat the buffalo.
There is plenty of proof that He exists in the most popular book in the world, the Bible. You should read it and find out about God and how He gave His only son to die on a cross for our sins. You can also find out about the time that we are living In now -referred to as the end times. God does not want anyone to die without accepting Him as your Savior, so you can spend eternity with Him.
Did you ever do any research to find out about the people who wrote the Bible? I have been a reader for over 80 years...and have done extensive reading. At 4 years of age, my grandmother taught me God is Love....and that was enough for me. All my life I have felt the presence and have seen miracles, when I prayed. However, I was sent a copy of the King James Bible in 1984...and I have been reading it for 41 years, but always asked for the Creator's guidance, before I read. Religious leaders interpret it for their followers...and people accept without question their interpretation. I always ask for guidance...and it comes. My brother is a Born Again and says every word in the Bible is divine...but if people really did any research they would find the Bible is far from 100% valid. However, people don't want to think for themselves. God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible by Adam Nicolson wrote about the 50 nobles and members of the clergy who worked on the KJB for 8 years (1603-1511). The original which came off the printing press was 1286 pages. King James men added 500 pages more pages; and they were not spiritual men. They were literate and able to write. The Gutenberg Bible was the first book to come off the printing press in the 1450s. It stemmed from information coming from the Roman Catholic Church. Other people after that time wrote their translations of the Gutenberg Bible; and the Geneva Bible was prominent, before the King James Bible. However, all Bibles rely on information that stemmed back to the promotion of Christianity by the Roman Emperor Constantine in 325 AD at the Council of Nicea. The Greeks went along with Constantine at that time. This is how the Bible really got off the ground. it took money!.
I was fortunate to go to a Christian school and my parents raised me up in a Christian home where going to church was a vital part of our lives. I don’t proclaim to know everything but I know that the Bible was inspired by God. He used men that were not perfect by any means to write it. He is my Savior because I chose to become a Christian. I am thankful for the many blessings He has given me and look forward to His return.
Thanks for putting a human face on this tragic event and placing it in context with history and factual detail.
Sorry he’s lost his life but he was there hunting and IT’S ABOUT TIME THE ANIMALS GOT THEIR OWN BACK! I don’t have much if any, sympathy for him. I don’t know what people’s obsession is with hunting animals for pleasure. It’s sick.
Hunting provides the finances to conserve and protect these majestic animals, and also provides much needed protein for the African villagers…
What does anti hunting propaganda provide?
Mean comments!
There isn't enough space available any longer for animals to allow nature to regulate their numbers. Buffalos consume huge amounts of grass and basically have the lion as their sole enemy. In a modern setting on a hunting farm their numbers are controlled by the owner deciding on a number of animals that can be made available for hunting for that season. The current cost to hunt a buffalo bull is $10 000. I don't hunt personally but, in nature, every buffalo dies at some point, and it is always a much more violent death than death by projectile. Because their skin is so tough and they are so strong, it takes a pack of lions to climb onto the animal to take it down. The flesh is torn out while one or two lions suffocate the buffalo. It is a horrible death that my wife and I can't watch. Respect though, for your love and caring.
In the mid-fifties, my father was charged by a Cape buffalo and survived because an African dropped it with a rifle shot before it reached him. Thus at the age of nine, I learned that the Cape buffalo is the most dangerous animal in Africa.
Wow. Am so sorry. In our modern world it is often hard to remember that we are all actually wild animals and the Cape Buffalo is a lot bigger and faster than we are. I am sure your friend knew this since he was a hunter, but the hunted won this time. I'm so sorry and may he rest in peace and my condolences to the family.
I am a Physician and a Plant Based Nutrition Consultant. I do not eat mammals,;therefor, I do not need to kill or have others kill them for me to eat. It is not a sport to kill these gifts of nature (Baruch Hashem ["Blessed is the name." in Hebrew]).
Dr John Kaplan, Wildomar, CA
Actually many mammals are killed during the production of plant foods for human consumption, ask any farmer. Also all plants have "feelings" see the book The Secret Life of Plants. Unfortunately this world exists with killing and cruelty to survive. The local villages use the killed animal for substance.
Then you ought to be more than aware, as a student of the Human body, that God gave us canine teeth to rip meat and not carrot sticks. You should also know that God told man to eat animal meat after the flood, but the blood must be removed. In other words, it should be killed and not eaten alive. Hunting jeeps these animal from over populating and starving during cold and harsh seasons.
LOL!
God gave approval to eat meats as described in His word. Even as a nutrition counselor you know the nutrients in cattle for humans. Of course we eat far too much meat but not all meat was nor is off limits. Meat eating animals and humans hunting for food doesn't harm the species and may help overpopulation that may be dangerous for humans, other species and the environment. It's hunting, poaching and western meat practices that can be a pronlem.
Dee, Thank you for your thoughtful message. When Ha Shem granted Noach permission to eat meat, Hashem did not say that it was preferable- just permitted. Hashem initially gave man plant foods to eat exclusively at the time of creation (Genesis1:29-30. It is unnecessary to eat animal flesh to be healthy, strong, and free of chronic diseases. I am 77 years of age and do not require any medicines. Dr John
As an avid reader of John Leake's writing, I have realized he might be a real-life Most Interesting Man in the World. As in "sharks have a week dedicated to him"... maybe he drinks Dos Equis too!
He went to kill a sentient being for fun/enjoyment, and he ended up being the hunted. I'm having trouble feeling sorry for him. I feel sorry for his family.
"I'm having trouble feeling sorry for him."
I'm not having trouble not feeling sorry for him. Good riddance; he was killing for pleasure.
I am amazed at some of the comments. You would think we have a bunch of vegetarians. Of course we could go synthetic like Gates wants to do. Good luck with life after all the chemicals in it. We need protein and meat is a great source. Someone has to kill it. Would you think they would kill it for the fun of it? I am sure that much meat would last a family a long time.
You give Gates too much credit. The chemical slop he calls "synthetic meat" are for us (bugs and maggots too), while Gates and his fellow psychopaths continue to feast on the finest grass-fed, antibiotic-free meats.
No way. Gates is into synthetic man made food. The kind you can put anything in so you can decrease population.
Buffalo's aren't hunted for their meat. The hunter wants a trophy, I.e. the head and horns. The meat goes to a specialised butcher who processes it, so, it's not lost.
So sad! Praying for his family
May he RIP and hopefully come back being neither a predator or the prey. The usual score for return is that what one is thinking about has a great effect on what the soul will return as. Just saying!
Sorry about your friend John Leake. Very unfortunate way to die. Hunting is indeed dangerous in many ways. I was charged by a full grown bull moose, who closed on me, on the run, while I was stalking him, for sustenance. I fired a 180 grain 30-06 bullet into his heart from 20 yards, he turned slightly, leaned into a 20 foot diameter circle, and dropped dead facing away from me... It was remembered today after reading your article about the charging Cape Buffalo... even a heavy bullet is unlikely to stop a charging creature the size of a Cape Buffalo before it gets you. Hunting these enormous, powerful beasts is a very dangerous undertaking. I do not hunt for sport... my moose was necessary for the family food supply before winter, and I was grateful for it, as was my mother, father, and siblings. Praise God for sparing me. I have prayed to God, in Jesus name , for comfort to Asher's family.
This is a trigger article for me because I could have bet a million dollars that all the animal worshippers were going to come sniveling out of the woodwork. This man was attacked and gored to death by a wild Beast. I don't give a crap if he was going to hang its head on his living room wall and throw darts at it. Anyone who sees this differently is morally corrupt. He was a Human Being created in God's image. Animals have No Such position! They all basically behave in a preprogrammed manner according to their kind, which includes hunting, storing food, hibernation, migrations, and mating. Animals were made for MAN for the following purposes: 1/ To eat 2/ To do labor 3/ To make clothing and items out of 4/ To study for our benefit which includes medical research 5/ To entertain us and serve as companions and guides. Period. You people who look at this any other way are out of line.
Cape Buffalos, Hippos, killer bees, almost every kind of snake, crocs..... what is it about Africa that produces such amazing amounts of aggression? Could almost see a pattern.
I too find hunting generally needless and particularly unpalatable if done for enjoyment. But the loss of a human life is at another, much higher level that cannot be dismissed. Thank you, John, for this well-balanced writing.
"Though many—myself included—perceive the shooting of Cape Buffalo to be a cruel sport, there is no doubt that hunting revenue provides the strongest incentive for preserving their habitat."
So, they are killing them to save them??? Sounds like the excuse used to justify the war in Vietnam and most U.S. wars.