33 Elephants smoked in Chad.

Chickens live a full and proud life so that humans are able to enjoy their nutritious flavorful meat.

Elephants sadly are not nearly as fortunate. They're gunned to the ground, sliced and beheaded from the forehead down and left to rot in the open - all right in front of their newborns. Proud moment knowing that 50-60 years of your life have been eliminated so that Asians and bible smashers can have a lovely centerpiece for their living rooms.

1.  Killing any animal for material items that are simply not needed (i.e. fur, ivory, skin) should be illegal.

2.  Stories like this deserve the death penalty.

3.  I'm with the8ofcups again in his previous post.

4.  The way we treat chickens and cows in this country is unforgivable.  I understand eating them, but killing them and treating them in an inhumane manner is simply wrong.

5.  If there is a Hell, these poachers, and people like them, will be there.

     Elephants are known to recognize the bones of other elephants and seem to show sadness when they discover them.  I don't know if an elephant has more of a right to live than a chicken.  Does a dog have more of a right to live than a mouse?  I would say yes, but that's just me.  By "right to live", I mean that we should value a dog's life, but if you don't value a rodent's life, I would consider that normal and just.  Let's keep it in perspective... it's just a mouse.  So yes... we should value elephants more.

     I think sooner or later God is just going to end us after seeing the evil that we do every day.  He's just gonna get tired of it all and snuff us out.  JMO.

 

Relax Scally, I'm not questioining the horrific slaughter of those animals. It is without question the most horrific site I've ever witnessed. (and I have seen cows and pigs butchered)  Fact is is that it really had an effect on me when I was younger - just learned to accept it and focus on other needless slaughter that actually can be eliminated or reduced. I would highly recommend that line of thought sir. There is NOTHING you can do so live with it and channel your energy toward some animals that can use your help.

I've seen a lot of bad things beyond your imagination happening to protected animals both below and above the surface. You've got some big boy speed type on but I wonder how much time you've spent in one level dirt road airports.

 

You're either high on mushrooms and LSD or locked up in solitary confinement if you want to take on this post.

Well said slovak.

 Asian countries with the most ivory seized. 1989 - 2011 (Pounds)

India        14,900

Singapore 17,700

Malaysia   18,800

Japan        19,000

Philippines 23,500

Vietnam     29,600

Taiwan       40,500

Hong Kong 45,500

Thailand     47,100

CHINA   90,600

****One tusk = 11 pounds.

Sick bastards.

 

 

 

 

Quote Originally Posted by Slovak:

Scalabrine watched a couple youtube videos on animals being slaughtered and he thinks he knows it all.

First off, no one gives a garbage what occurs on farms where animals are being processed for human consumption. Chickens just like cattle and fish are being bred for one reason, Human Survival. Elephants are not being bred for food consumption.

Scalabrine comparing a baby elephant to a freaking baby chicken. Unreal.

Human survival he says....

As though humans will be on the fringe of extinction if we don't eat animal flesh....

Wow...

It's 2013 and he lives in the richest nation in the history of the world and he just typed that...

You'd think he thinks he's living in on the Siberian Tundra in the 1600's....

Ya can't make it up...

Comparitively speaking, that would put ancient Egyptians, Romans, Greeks, Mayans, Incas, British, Dutch, Spaniards, Mexicans and French in eternal hell..... 

I've left out a few dozen.

Just stating a fact thats all. Its good thing you hide behind a keyboard because all this stuff you bash others for I can almost guarantee goes on in your life but you try to act above all others on here, Like I said you lack sense but are smart. Therefore you can come up with these well written arguments for whatever but you dont have enough sense to understand situations. 

I think the scalabrine guy has the covers "know it all" reputation that draws nothing but heat to his corner.  But he has a very good point in this particular case.  It's really nothing more than ... speciesism ... as scalabrine describes it.  Now if the discussion went to "save the elephants from extinction" instead of it's current format, I'd still say it's still speciesism ... however ... I'd simply admit that I'm a hypocrite and I'm a "speciesism guy" if it meant protecting whatever species from imminent extinction.  So to sum it up, scalabrine is correct, I'm a hypocrite, I eat chicken and I like elephants.   

Animals have been raised for human consumption forever.  That's never going to change.  As humans, most can rationalize this. 

I agree.........

 

I agree.

It's sad that man hunts elephants for commerce reasons, but it is reality.

Scal doesn't know a gawd damn thing. He chooses a ridiculous one dimentional argument and stays the course until everything becomes completely absurd, distorted and beyond logic and reason. This is the case once again.

SportsFan... First off, I agree with what you said. Somewhat.

If your speculation about the future is correct, I won't care if the animal is endangered. This is your part that I agree with. However, I won't be poaching elephants for ivory, and I'll still think it is an unforgivable and monsterous crime to do so.

Also (and I'm not telling you anything you don't know), we're not talking about starving people hunting for food.

Economic doomsday predictions are running rampant nowadays. I hope somehow this country rebounds.

Handshake to SportsFan.

Sportfan's a good dude but the post is confusing. Protected animals (especially elephants) are close to the most highly guarded mammals on the planet for good reason.

What is happening to them is an outrage. The British would be the first to admit that the world is still trying to restablish Africa's most intelligent/important prized million year old species.

Let's compare them to dolphins being hooked to the brink for a set of teeth on the Asian market.  How would that work out for yáll?

There are serious consequences when certain creatures are eliminated by human thirst for spare parts. Not following any thought process on the matter here.

I think I need a new avatar.  Sick and tired of the whimpy behind Drose being a box, and letting his team down.  Turns out he is not my kind of guy.

wow this sensorship b.u.l.l.s.h.i.t here on covers is really annoying