Because I don't often rant, I'll make this small, and hopefully you won't mind that this isn't an art post, even though it spurred from me searching up Kudu pictures.

Now, I'm not against hunting to eat, in fact, I find moose quite tasty, and I like my deer as much as the next Canadian who has been out East, but when I came across all these websites for trophy hunts in Africa and the like it just made me sick to my stomach. Honestly, people want to lay down 5, 10, 20 grand to go shoot an animal and take a picture with it? People are absolutely mad! If people want to hunt animals so badly, they should just spin the hunters around a few dozen times while blindfolded and make them run in different directions then pull off their blindfolds so they can hunt the other guys who ran off in other directions. It would make the world a happier place for all of us, really.

I also did read, though they have Eco Hunts, which is interesting. They bring these hunters along to tranquilize rhino, buffalo and elephant, then the scientists come in and take their blood and measurements, the hunter gets his photo and they even have a taxidermist come in and take measurements of the animal's head so that a fiberglass replica can be made. Now isn't that interesting. Why don't all hunters just become part of research teams?