You do not have to go to Africa to kill African animals. Pre-ordained slaughter also occurs in the US. Hunters at "high-fence" hunting ranches like 2,000-acre Circle E in Bedias, TX where people can shoot exotic species like wildebeest and zebra for $6,500 a head.
"Don't call them hunters" wrote Port Huron Times Herald reporter Mike Eckert after viewing videotape from a high-fence game farm. "The enclosure wasn't bigger than my back yard. Sick and dying deer were propped in front of killers who paid thousands of dollars to shoot them. For customers who were really slow to aim and shoot, deer were drugged."
Another high-end canned hunting operation is Heartland Wildlife Ranches in Ethel, MO reported the St. Louis Post-Dispatch where "Hunters come from across the country to take aim at trophy animals such as whitetail deer, elk and zebra. A three-day hunt for water buffalo costs $4,000."
In Indiana, where high-fence operations flourish, Sen. Pete Miller, R-Avon introduced legislation after a shocking a four-part investigative series published last spring by the Indianapolis Star. His bill has yet to receive a hearing and a proposed high-fence ban led by state wildlife officers was overruled in court.
Clearly there is money in letting people like dentist Walter Palmer indulge their sick sadistic appetites. But is it right and should it be legal?
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