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If our only choices were exterminating elephants or raising them for food, I might agree with you. But that's not even close to the situation in the world today
by thesteamboat 11y ago
If our only choices were exterminating elephants or raising them for food, I might agree with you. But that's not even close to the situation in the world today.
Elephants are not in the same position as cattle. When lab-grown meat is a viable alternative there may well be a decision to abandon ranching (and by extension cows as a species) en masse. But we don't depend on eating elephants for food; people kill elephants for status reasons (ivory, 'medicines').
- meric 11y agoYou don't depend on elephants for food, it doesn't mean no one else does. Once an elephant is shot, the villagers just start to appear. Word gets out fast. It is like a celebration when an elephant is killed, the entire village will join in. The natives cut all of the meat off the bone and take it to their village to eat. They don’t let anything go to waste. http://gothunts.com/see-what-happens-to-an-elephant-after-elephant-hunting/ http://gothunts.com/see-what-happens-to-an-elephant-after-el... You're right, there is a distinction. We don't imprison elephants and raise them for the sole purpose of imprisonment, impregnation and death.