Slaughter of the African Elephants By Samantha Strindberg and Fiona Maisels
The main idea of this article is that there are African Elephants being slaughtered and tortured.... for their horns. That's right many people in Africa are killing full grown elephants for their tusks because their tusks are actually made of ivory and as you may know ivory is of high demand in China and other countries in the far east. The reason they're in such high demand is because ivory is worth a lot of money and appearantly the hunters of Africa have discovered that.
Details or evidence I have from the article of this horrible crime is when the writer is describing the stock market and she was showing how the demand for the precious ivory was going up the stock or supply of them was rapidly decreasing. Another detail from the article is how it describes the many problems that are rising from this slaughter. Problems such as plant growth, other animals who look to the elephant for guidance won't be able to find one, and most importantly babies, baby elephants are dieing off aswell as their moms and dads because they don't know yet how to take care of themselves and fend for themselves causing them to die off from starvation, dehydration, and even stress from not having their parents around to show their love too.
In my opinion this needs to stop because clearly this isn't the right thing to do. It may get sellers a lot of money I do agree with that but money isn't everything just think of what you're doing to your OWN community, think what you're doing to those poor elephants your killing off, you may be to blind to see but that elephant you just shot up like he was some kind of beast, that elephant had kids maybe even a mate, he/she was raising that kid teaching him/her all he/she could teach them. They were building up YOUR community with their natural planting abilities and natural fertilizer. Most importantly unless I'm mistaken elephants are peaceful animals who wouldn't go out their way to hurt a fly they wouldn't even hit a mosquito if they annoy them the elephant will just dip itself in mud to keep them away. The point I'm trying to make is that you shouldn't be killing off elephants because I'm pretty sure they're doing more work for the community than you ever will.
This article has helped me to think more deeply of the subject because I don't like animal cruelty and I know I don't and just reading this article has made me personally angry because just to know their is animal slaughter going on makes me think about all the stupidity we as people are capable of, I think this is absolute nonsense what's going on and like I've said before this needs to stop immediately.
One connection I can make to this article is back when I was younger and word got out that Michael Vick was killing dogs, making them fight to the death etc. for his amusement and even when I was younger this outraged me because what he was doing at the time wasn't right and quite frankly that is a memory that will never leave my head because what he was doing was absolutely horrible.
The question I have is for any African hunters who just happen to be reading this blog. Why do you do what you do to those poor animals? When will you stop? Don't you have any heart for those precious animals you're killing? My final question is What is your problem?
Details or evidence I have from the article of this horrible crime is when the writer is describing the stock market and she was showing how the demand for the precious ivory was going up the stock or supply of them was rapidly decreasing. Another detail from the article is how it describes the many problems that are rising from this slaughter. Problems such as plant growth, other animals who look to the elephant for guidance won't be able to find one, and most importantly babies, baby elephants are dieing off aswell as their moms and dads because they don't know yet how to take care of themselves and fend for themselves causing them to die off from starvation, dehydration, and even stress from not having their parents around to show their love too.
In my opinion this needs to stop because clearly this isn't the right thing to do. It may get sellers a lot of money I do agree with that but money isn't everything just think of what you're doing to your OWN community, think what you're doing to those poor elephants your killing off, you may be to blind to see but that elephant you just shot up like he was some kind of beast, that elephant had kids maybe even a mate, he/she was raising that kid teaching him/her all he/she could teach them. They were building up YOUR community with their natural planting abilities and natural fertilizer. Most importantly unless I'm mistaken elephants are peaceful animals who wouldn't go out their way to hurt a fly they wouldn't even hit a mosquito if they annoy them the elephant will just dip itself in mud to keep them away. The point I'm trying to make is that you shouldn't be killing off elephants because I'm pretty sure they're doing more work for the community than you ever will.
This article has helped me to think more deeply of the subject because I don't like animal cruelty and I know I don't and just reading this article has made me personally angry because just to know their is animal slaughter going on makes me think about all the stupidity we as people are capable of, I think this is absolute nonsense what's going on and like I've said before this needs to stop immediately.
One connection I can make to this article is back when I was younger and word got out that Michael Vick was killing dogs, making them fight to the death etc. for his amusement and even when I was younger this outraged me because what he was doing at the time wasn't right and quite frankly that is a memory that will never leave my head because what he was doing was absolutely horrible.
The question I have is for any African hunters who just happen to be reading this blog. Why do you do what you do to those poor animals? When will you stop? Don't you have any heart for those precious animals you're killing? My final question is What is your problem?
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