My tweets

[sacramentalist]

• Tue, 19:13: To people crying over a lion: Yes, it's sad. How many pigs, chickens and cows have you eaten this year? Rein it in with a little perspective

Comments

[sabotabby]

Zero. And no fish or other sea creatures either. I may have eaten some bugs, but I assume they consented if they flew into my food.

This said, while there are lots of good reasons to not eat animals, none of those are endangered.

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

Such a can of worms. I have a client who goes on hunts exactly like that. Has a polar bear, a grizzly, an elephant, a lion, a cheetah, etc., etc., etc. all mounted in his home. The whole feel about it is just gross. I love a steak, but I don't mount the cow's head on my wall, either.

Yeah, I'm not getting into it. I'm not NEARLY as upset as a lot of people. My general reaction is: Oh look, that guy's a huge douchebag. I have trouble quantifying what I find so distasteful, but I don't like trophy mounted fishes/deer either (and find people posing with them to be gross), and I have no problem with killing (other people) or eating (me) them. It defies the Scandinavian call to humbleness. It's just so...arrogant and pointless, the trophy hunting.

[pork_chop]

if he was hunting lions for survival/food, it would be a different story. though it would still suck because they're endangered in the wild.

[clevortrevor]

I agree that every life wrongfully or cruelly taken is a tragedy. I hope some global change comes from this very well-placed, if singular, outrage.

If there's one message I've taken away from all the press on this issue, it's that dentists clearly make too much money.

[bronnyelsp.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking all day "Why does it matter he has a name and a collar? Don't kill the fucking lions!"

[immemor.livejournal.com]

On fb I wanted to write, "Local dentist eats Cecil the chicken; no one gives a fuck." But I was kind to my fb friends today, don't know why. Still, from my understanding they did a shitty thing. But most of us are living in a glass house where this is concerned.