The Texas landscape is littered with thousands of ranches where the sole crop is Death. The owners of these ranches earn their living by selling the lives of others – captive animals- for thousands and tens of thousands of dollars to “hunters” with a bloodlust that neither number of victims or circumstances of their death can quench.
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Texas death ranchers attempt to justify their murder-for-hire operations by styling themselves as “conservationists.” Yeah, right.
Blood and Beauty on a Texas Exotic-Game Ranch
And Hitler justified, in his own mind and in the minds of his death camp personnel, that the murder of Jews was for the purpose of “purifying” Germany and greater Europe. His idea of a noble purpose for monstrous crimes.
In the same spirit the wardens of the death ranches in Texas run their businesses, justify the suffering and death they are paid to cause and care not for the animals they have imprisoned on their own version of death row.
The ranch’s hunting guides and managers walk a thin, controversial line between caring for thousands of rare, threatened and endangered animals and helping to execute them. Some see the ranch as a place for sport and conservation. Some see it as a place for slaughter and hypocrisy. — New York Times
Born To Die: Hunters Pay To Kill Captive Animals In Texas
Price lists clearly show the price placed on the heads of captive animals in Texas:
Typical Price List For Captive Animals In Texas
Ranchers in the nation’s top cattle-raising state have been transforming pasture land into something out of an African safari, largely to lure trophy hunters who pay top-dollar kill fees to hunt exotics. — New York Times
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“The domestic wildlife trade is the dirty underbelly of trophy hunting industry,” said Kitty Block, CEO of the Humane Society of the United States, an animal welfare group that opposes the practice. Block described the hunting of exotics in the U.S. as canned hunts, motivated by the desire to obtain a so-called trophy.
“Animals are fenced-in, hand-reared, hand-fed, and they’re baited so food is out when hunters come,” Block told CBS News. “Hunters are then driven up to the area where animal is eating and they’re shot there.”
This form of “hunting,” any hunting really, makes me very angry. Angry and disappointed that animal cruelty like this can exist in the United States in the 21st century.
I realize there are people who would rather not know about these death camps for animals, see pictures of the maimed and dead animals, but none of us can work to change what we don’t know exists. People are visual. We have to see to believe. And seeing we believe. Believing we become woke – energized to change the system.
Johnny Depp is spot on. We need to see. We need to believe. We need to stop the violence.
The Texas legislature is not immune to phone calls, postcards, petitions from animal rights activists. Take the time to do something – even a small something – to save captive animals from a cruel death in Texas.
