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Earthly Eviction: A Slam

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My latest childrens book "Rosemary's Rainy Day" hope ye all enjoy especially the characters BillyBumblyBee, BeatrixButterfly, HunterHummingBird, Clarence the Pink Earthworm, Hettie Hedgehog #childrensbook #children #kidsbook #book #illustrations #art #cartoon #drawing #drawings #conservationalism #nature #animals

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Kendall Jones Claims She Hunts Endangered Animals To Conserve Them

Kendall Jones standing over an elephant she shot. Photo has since been removed from Facebook.

Kendall Jones is a 19-year-old cheerleader at Texas Tech University with a rather disturbing ethical code and hobby -- the shooting and killing of endangered species for sport or, as she terms it, "conservation." The logic being that the countries that allow hunting use the hunting to fund fighting poachers. Or, as Kendall puts it in one comment:

Maybe people should get their facts straight. Leopards,Lions, elephant and White Rhinos are protected by permits issued by CITES. This is a conservation effort to assure that they never do become extinct. The proceeds from these permits and from hunting go directly back to conservation efforts, habitat preservation and anti poaching personnel. Look up Safari Club International (SCI) -- Official Group and read up on the millions of dollars that hunters provide in conservation efforts. Educate yourself.....the meat from these animals, Lion and all, was donated to the local communities and schools. Not any part of these animals went to waste.

It's a plus for efficiency that the carcass of the animal doesn't go to waste, but it doesn't negate the removal of the animal from an endangered population. And as another Facebook user responds,

This is good because your money goes to conservation efforts? So you're saying those organizations wouldn't accept your money if you didn't go kill animals first? The idea of giving to conservation organizations is great, but using that as an excuse to justify killing for fun is disgraceful.

And that's really the crux of it. No matter which way you look at it, she is hunting and killing for sport. To justify it by positing some level of good for the whole reminds me of a short story that is often studied in ethics courses: The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas. In case you're not familiar with the story, I'll give you a short summary.

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Kendall Jones Claims She Hunts Endangered Animals To Conserve Them

Kendall Jones Claims She Hunts Endangered Animals To Conserve Them

Kendall Jones standing over an elephant she shot. Photo has since been removed from Facebook.

Kendall Jones is a 19-year-old cheerleader at Texas Tech University with a rather disturbing ethical code and hobby — the shooting and killing of endangered species for sport or, as she terms it, “conservation.” The logic being that the countries that allow hunting use the hunting to fund fighting…

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Water Woes: Several millennia before Cleopatra was seducing any particular pagan politican, there was this place called the Indus Valley civilization (Punjabi!).

 Among the cool things it had was one of the most efficient potable water systems ever created. It was better than the system NYC had in the 1800s (and now the exact opposite is true). Every person who lives in a home in the U.S (as in, not hobos) is connected to a municipal (public) water system. The more people you have in your city, the more the water is checked and made sure it doesn’t have cooties. In NYC it is checked over 400 times a month (more than thrice a day). Bottled water? It must be checked ‘at least once a week’ for ‘microbiological contaminants’ and at least once a year for ‘radiological contaminants’.  But this must be GREAT news right, if bottled water is being regulated less and isn’t killing us maybe we shouldn’t be so scared of it after all! Not...really.