Hinteregger poses with killed deer
Ex-footballer Martin Hinteregger poses on Instagram with a shot roebuck. His followers react with outrage to the foolish act of self-promotion.
Even though his passion for recreational hunting was already well known – recreational hunter Martin Hinteregger is now suddenly causing uncomfortable uproar in the «social media forest»!
The former Austrian national team player presents himself foolishly in his latest Instagram post with a roebuck he has shot.
Criticism of Hinteregger
Most of the Carinthian’s followers are not impressed either by the recreational hunting itself or by the publication of a photo featuring the killed wild animal . «If you had any respect for this magnificent animal, you would not have shot it» or «Having yourself photographed [...] as if holding a trophy and being ‘proud’ of it is something I find very questionable. That is reason enough for me to unfollow you» — these are just two examples of the criticism directed at Hinteregger.
Martin Hinteregger’s behaviour is shameful, above all for himself. He poses proudly in his photo in front of a killed animal, yet in reality the scene is a testament to a lack of morality. It is sad that he has replaced the missing thrill on the football pitch with the «kick» that killing apparently gives him. The ex-professional footballer would do well to think of a better leisure activity than lying in wait for animals in the forest and senselessly taking their lives. We hope that the public criticism will prompt him to reconsider and that in future he will turn to a non-bloody, meaningful hobby — such as animal and environmental protection.
Peter Höffken, specialist adviser at PETA
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More on the subject of recreational hunting: In the dossier The Role and Criticism of Recreational Hunters we shed light on the training, power and self-image of recreational hunters. The scientific evidence is presented in the overview Studies on the Effects of Recreational Hunting.
The position of IG Wild beim Wild: IG Wild beim Wild rejects recreational hunting. Our model is the canton of Geneva, which has managed without recreational hunting since 1974: without hunting seasons, without hunting dogs, without driven hunts, without high seats, without the animal cruelty and crime that go hand in hand with hunting season elsewhere. What has worked there for over fifty years disproves every position paper by JagdSchweiz. An association that bases its policy on claims it refutes in its own documents is not a professional organisation, but a factory for misinformation.
