The animal here is not the Baboon
Oct. 28th, 2009 06:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aamusedinatxAA Gill shot baboon 'to see what it would be like to kill someone'
• Restaurant critic says he felt urge to be a primate killer
• Animal campaigners attack 'indefensible' action
EDITED TO ADD:
I am not a PETA freak. I am an omnivore. I spent part of my growing up in Alaska. I've eaten venison of many, many stripes. I believe in careful and controlled hunting for the purpose of eating and I don't have a problem with first nations who hunt and make use of nearly 100% of the bodies they kill in the form of meat, skins for clothes and tents, oil for candles and grease, what have you.
That's not what has me upset about this. This wasn't hunting for sustenance, it was murder you could get away with. You can't just walk up to a human being and shoot them so you can know what it feels like--there are consequences. But this is his idea of the next best thing with no legal consequence, except that I hope that some PETA/GREENPEACE job in jackboots finds him staggering out of a pub or restaurant and beats him senseless as he arrogantly composes his next critique, and he dies bleeding on the pavement.
• Restaurant critic says he felt urge to be a primate killer
• Animal campaigners attack 'indefensible' action
EDITED TO ADD:
I am not a PETA freak. I am an omnivore. I spent part of my growing up in Alaska. I've eaten venison of many, many stripes. I believe in careful and controlled hunting for the purpose of eating and I don't have a problem with first nations who hunt and make use of nearly 100% of the bodies they kill in the form of meat, skins for clothes and tents, oil for candles and grease, what have you.
That's not what has me upset about this. This wasn't hunting for sustenance, it was murder you could get away with. You can't just walk up to a human being and shoot them so you can know what it feels like--there are consequences. But this is his idea of the next best thing with no legal consequence, except that I hope that some PETA/GREENPEACE job in jackboots finds him staggering out of a pub or restaurant and beats him senseless as he arrogantly composes his next critique, and he dies bleeding on the pavement.
