Botswana Selling Licenses To Kill Elephants At $39,000 A Head

[AtheistCrusader]

65. I assume they won't.

Normally in this situation, they'll donate the meat to the local residents, because the hunters are unlikely to be interested in that kind of meat.

But I think you mistook my meaning. The government is going to kill these animals either way. They're just auctioning the rights to do it, to people who will be willing to pay to do so.

The only moral issue I see with it, is that it foments a market in which there is demand. But otherwise, this is game management/conservation, based on what I have seen.

That said, even as a hunter (I DO eat meat from birds/deer) I would never hunt an elephant. Hell, I don't even eat Octopus, due to the innate intelligence of the animal, and given recent discoveries about even cows, I might end up a vegetarian in a few years.