9 Arrested in Florida for Baiting and Killing Black Bears

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9 people were arrested and charged in Florida with several different charges including felonies for luring, trapping, and eventually killing black bears. The sick people used tactics including leaving dog food and sweets out to lure the black bears out only to unleash a pack of trained hunting dogs on the bear. Obviously, the dogs would chase down and maul the bear, killing it to the bemusement of those involved. 

Luckily, as mentioned, they were arrested and charged after a year long investigation that led to them. What they did was sickening and definitely indicates that they have absolutely no compassion or empathy and frankly, their moral compasses are malfunctioning. Anyone who finds amusement in luring animals only to watch and enjoy them be chased, attacked, and / or killed is sick and needs to be locked up.

The word "conservation" was tossed around by "ethical hunters" who condemned what these people did but it begs the question, what makes it ethical versus what these people did? Essentially, you stalk, creep around unnoticed, and take pleasure in ending the life of an animal, so how can one argue that there is much of a difference? I mean, their mindset might be different in that they feel somewhat justified under the guise of conservation or hunting for food but at the end of the day, it's kind of along the same lines isn't it? I believe the malicious intent is not there, but the activity and end result end up being quite similar.

It's time to stop preaching about hunting as a means of conservation. The two words are compete opposites and it is completely hypocritical to state that you kill any animal for conservation. You hear this idea thrown around from trophy hunters who pay astronomical amounts of money to hunt lions, leopards, tigers etc., these people hunt this animals and believe that they've made their contributions to conservation financially which somehow justifies their actions when in fact, it works against conservation as a whole. Almost all of the animals that these ethical hunters pay to hunt are bordering on endangered so one cannot argue that the financial aspect makes up for the needless killing because you're removing animals from the planet that desperately need protection.

Good riddance to these scumbags and I hope they serve significant jail time but only time will tell. What do you guys think, do trophy hunting and conservation belong in the same sentence or am I right when I say that it's complete hogwash?


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