Born To Die: Hunters Pay To Kill Captive Animals In Texas

The Texas landscape is littered with thousands of ranches where the sole crop is Death. The owners of these ranches earn their living by selling the lives of others – captive animals- for thousands and tens of thousands of dollars to “hunters” with a bloodlust that neither number of victims or circumstances of their death can quench.

Born To Die: Hunters Pay To Kill Captive Animals In Texas

 

Bred to be shot: Inside America’s exotic hunting industry 

Texas death ranchers attempt to justify their murder-for-hire operations by styling themselves as “conservationists.” Yeah, right.

Blood and Beauty on a Texas Exotic-Game Ranch

And Hitler justified, in his own mind and in the minds of his death camp personnel, that the murder of Jews was for the purpose of “purifying” Germany and greater Europe. His idea of a noble purpose for monstrous crimes.

In the same spirit the wardens of the death ranches in Texas run their businesses, justify the suffering and death they are paid to cause and care not for the animals they have imprisoned on their own version of death row.

The ranch’s hunting guides and managers walk a thin, controversial line between caring for thousands of rare, threatened and endangered animals and helping to execute them. Some see the ranch as a place for sport and conservation. Some see it as a place for slaughter and hypocrisy. — New York Times

Hunters Pay Texas Death Camp Ranchers Thousands Of Dollars to Kill Captive Exotic Animals

Born To Die: Hunters Pay To Kill Captive Animals In Texas

 

Price lists clearly show the price placed on the heads of captive animals in Texas:

Typical Price List For Captive Animals In Texas

Happy Couple Pose Over Dead Body Of Zebra They Shot Dead

Ranchers in the nation’s top cattle-raising state have been transforming pasture land into something out of an African safari, largely to lure trophy hunters who pay top-dollar kill fees to hunt exotics. — New York Times

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“The domestic wildlife trade is the dirty underbelly of trophy hunting industry,” said Kitty Block, CEO of the Humane Society of the United States, an animal welfare group that opposes the practice. Block described the hunting of exotics in the U.S. as canned hunts, motivated by the desire to obtain a so-called trophy.
“Animals are fenced-in, hand-reared, hand-fed, and they’re baited so food is out when hunters come,” Block told CBS News. “Hunters are then driven up to the area where animal is eating and they’re shot there.”

This form of “hunting,” any hunting really, makes me very angry. Angry and disappointed that animal cruelty like this can exist in the United States in the 21st century.

I realize there are people who would rather not know about these death camps for animals, see pictures of the maimed and dead animals, but none of us can work to change what we don’t know exists. People are visual. We have to see to believe. And seeing we believe. Believing we become woke – energized to change the system.

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Johnny Depp is spot on. We need to see. We need to believe. We need to stop the violence.

The Texas legislature is not immune to phone calls, postcards, petitions from animal rights activists. Take the time to do something – even a small something – to save captive animals from a cruel death in Texas.

 

Canned Hunting Exposed: Savage Cruel Bloodthirsty

Canned Hunting Exposed: Savage Cruel Bloodthirsty

“We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that the animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves.”
César Chávez

Zebra Killed In Canned Hunt
Zebra Killed In Canned Hunt

Heard the old expression. “Like shooting fish in a barrel?”

Maybe you have. Maybe you haven’t. But it describes a form of canned hunting — killing animals that have no possibility or hope of escape. Animals awaiting their deaths at the hands of high-paying savages who pay big money to kill an animal that has more value to the world than they do.

Try as I might, there is simply no understanding people who are able to murder in cold-blood an animal that is captive whether that is behind the bars of a cage, fenced-in on a Texas ranch or game farm in Africa, or drugged and unable to escape the monster with the lethal weapon in their hands.

Trapped Behind A Fence Awaiting the Canned Hunter
Trapped Behind A Fence Awaiting the Canned Hunter 

“This, for many people, is what’s most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing”
Michael Pollan

This “hunting,” really it is just cold-blooded murder by a different name, is not solely the province of the socially deviant, the mentally disturbed or the sociopath. Ordinary Americans, some admired by millions, are able to profit from canned hunts without a thought.

American actor Matthew McConaughey was exposed in recent years for using his Texas ranch to profit from the death of penned-up deer. For myself, since McConaughey is a prominent paid endorser of Lincoln cars, I cannot imagine buying any Ford product.

Fenced In Deer - Slated To Be Victims Of Canned Hunters
Fenced In Deer – Slated To Be Victims Of Canned Hunters

I will not support shooting fish in a barrel.

Singer Troy Lee Gentry paid to shoot a tame bear that was imprisoned in a small area unable to experience freedom because of the electrified fence that kept him a prisoner until his death. Gentry then falsified records and lied to friends about the “hunt.”

Owner Lee Marvin Greenly sold the bear for $4,650 and orchestrated the hunt, which Gentry videotaped and edited to make it appear the bear had been killed in a fair chase hunt, according to authorities.

Montgomery Gentry, which includes co-singer Eddie Montgomery, are known for hits such as “My Town” and “If You Ever Stop Loving Me.”

Do you really want to support the murder of captive animals by purchasing the music of Montgomery Gentry? I don’t. I won’t.

Animals of all sorts are kept on fenced-in, escape-proof, ranches especially in Texas. If you have the money, greedy evil canned hunting operators will provide you the animal of your choosing.

Graduation present? Reward for a good report card? Using the death of another living being as a way of feeling powerful when you know how powerless you really are? No problem. If you pay enough.

Teaching Kills That Murder Is Sport - To A Sick Few
Teaching Kills That Murder Is Sport – To A Sick Few
Beautiful Bison Killed By Ugly Hunter
Beautiful Bison Killed By Ugly Hunter

Looking for a way to impress the other bored, dysfunctional members of your 1% social circle?

Then by all means join the other Ugly Americans who feel good only when they have inflicted pain and death on a creature more valued by the world by you.

Canned Hunting Exposed: Savage Cruel Bloodthirsty

Ugly American Murder Beautiful Rhino
Ugly American Murder Beautiful Rhino
No Matter How Gentle The Zebra Someone Wants To Murder It
No Matter How Gentle The Zebra Someone Wants To Murder It

Too fat to walk to the enclosure, fence, or pen? Too fat to get in the vehicle that will drive you to your vehicle. Canned hunt operators now make it possible to shoot and kill a beautiful animal from the comfort of your computer keyboard — and then you can waddle or be transported to the corpse.

Fat Ass Tiny penis Killer And The Noble Lion Whose Life He Ended
Fat Ass Tiny penis Killer And The Noble Lion Whose Life He Ended

As wealthy bored heartless Americans flock to Africa to kill, the problem becomes one of species on the verge of extinction. Not enough targets.

But that wonderful American virtue, greed, is the mother of invention. Sensing money to be made, degenerates, especially in South Africa are breeding animals like lions solely and specifically to be killed in canned hunts.

Blood Lions Raised To Be Killed By Wealthy Americans
Blood Lions Raised To Be Killed By Wealthy Americans

Ellen DeGeneres

“I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it’s such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.”

Ellen DeGeneres

But greed, killing and savagery have opponents. A magnificent documentary exposing the horror of breeding lions for trophy hunters and the canned hunting industry is changing the tide.
“Blood Lions” is an eye-opening expose and a challenge to all of us who love and respect animals. It is surely one film that must be seen by every man, woman and child on our planet.
To Be Continued…
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