First off let me start by saying I am not against hunting. I personally don't do it but considering I'm from Texas as well I've been around it enough to know it's not bad. Hunting, in my opinion, is okay as long as you're only killing for food. Killing an elephant, lion, leopard, zebra, and countless other exotic animals hardly seems to fit within that definition. Now Kendall claims that what she's doing is "helping conserve wildlife" and helping the economy of Africa. It cost $10,000 to hunt in South Africa PER SHOT, so obviously money isn't a problem for her. Instead of using all that money to kill endangered animals to "help the economy" why couldn't she had just donated the money to build wells or decent houses or anything that didn't involve the pointless murder of these animals.
Now with the conserving of the wildlife, I'm not completely aware of how that works but it sounds like it makes no sense at all. Jones claims that with the lion she was actually helping increase their population by hunting them. As if that could make sense in any universe. She said that since lions travel in packs of several females and one male there couldn't be an over load of males otherwise they would kill each other off in a fight for dominance. So killing the males with her gun/bow/whatever she used is helping them. My thought is that we're taking the typical superior American thought that we can take your life into our control because we know what's best for you. How does she know that they would kill each other? Yes we know that it is very likely the males will do that but isn't it better to leave that choice to the animals? Taking control and killing the lion because it was going to die anyway isn't doing anybody a favor. Maybe they would miraculously not kill each other and increase their dwindling population or maybe they would fight to the death. But I would rather see an animal die through natural king of the jungle style brawls than a narcissistic girl with a bow.
If you're against what Kendall Jones is doing please help keep her out of South Africa by signing this petition.
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