Trophy Hunter in a Shitstorm
People who kill animals for fun are mentally disturbed. In today’s society, those who feel nothing when killing are considered severely ill. This is confirmed by common sense. The fact that such sick individuals also occupy positions in public authorities paid for by taxpayers makes the whole affair even more embarrassing. The official Blake Fischer, from the
People who kill animals for fun are mentally disturbed. In today’s society, those who feel nothing when killing are considered severely ill.
The fact that such sick individuals also occupy positions in public authorities paid for by taxpayers makes the whole affair even more embarrassing.
The official Blake Fischer from the Idaho/USA Wildlife Department is just another individual who boasts about having killed animals on a hunting trip to Africa.
14 animals killed, including a family of baboons
Blake Fischer was asked to resign after he sent an email to over 100 people showing photos from his recent big-game hunting trip in Namibia.
The 14 animals he killed included a giraffe, leopards, impalas, antelopes, waterbucks, kudus, warthogs, gemsbok, and an entire family of baboons.
The photo that has caused the most concern is one of Fischer, where — like many recreational hunters — he grins psychopathically into the camera while posing with the family of dead baboons, including the babies through whose stomachs he had shot arrows.
Worldwide Outrage
Not only animal welfare advocates around the world are outraged after he shared the heartless and despicable photos of himself. Comedian Ricky Gervais called Fischer “pathetic” on his Twitter account with the hashtag #BanTrophyHunting.
“We all know that recreational hunters are cowards and the scum of the earth,” said Tom Arnold on his Twitter account.
Fischer reportedly claimed that he had done nothing wrong and was an ethical recreational hunter.
The public pressure became too great, and the mentally disturbed recreational hunter, who harvests living beings like vegetables, has resigned. Not everything that is legal is also right. More on crime and recreational hunting and on the psychology of recreational hunting.
More on the subject of recreational hunting: In our dossiers on the criticism of recreational hunting gather fact-checks, analyses and background reports. 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.
